Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...
...firebrands to the tails of 300 foxes and loosed them in the fields of the Philistines) has been developed in World War II to a fearsome degree. At the beginning of the war, both sides relied mainly on thermite and magnesium-filled bombs. Such bombs, as every air-raid warden knows, burn with terrible fury but are comparatively easy to put out if attacked in time...
...whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice could only be found within its bars, that outside was only disorder, strikes, uncertainty, unemployment, and exploitation. . . ." It differed from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing only in that "a talented inmate can work himself up to be warden, which would be impossible in Lansing...
...story in TIME (Feb. 5) of the boy brutally tortured and killed in Seattle's King County Jail is one that should rouse to action every juvenile officer, jail warden, mayor, policeman and governor in the U.S.! It comes as a climax to the stories already being spread by investigators all over the country as to local jail conditions and the pitiful care being given juvenile delinquents...
What kind of a warden or caretaker is in that King County Jail, or any other jail, that would turn a deaf ear to the screams of an inmate? And a blind eye to wounds that must have been evident from the cruel beatings given...