Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief characters, Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt and First Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden are both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
...Both Warden and Prewitt have love affairs in the course of the book, Prewitt with a respectable where and Warden with the wife of his captain. With some cynicism but convincing logie, Jones has them both flee their women when the relationships get too much like marriage...
...Winthrop's Stan Greene dumped in a last-second field goal to squeeze by Lowell, 32 to 31. In the third close game yesterday, Dunster made up a 28 to 17 half-time deficit to top Dudley, 51 to 50. Commuter captain Bob Hoffman scored 26 points while Dave Warden made 18 for the Funsters. The Bellboy 'B' quintet revenged the 'A' team's defeat by trimming Winthrop...
...starting lineup for the Funsters consisted of Dummond, Warden, Walker, Smith, and Raphael. Moulton, Wood, Goodman, O'Neill, and Laster started for the Gold-Coasters...
Psychologist Wilson himself was by no means accepted on faith. Under cover of interior construction work, the convicts wired his office for evidence that he might be some new kind of spy for the warden. Once the prisoners decided that "Doc" was no stool pigeon, they were fiercely loyal. They cracked the skull of a disgruntled convict who spoke ill of the Doc, and once they rushed him off to the safety of a storeroom when a few other cons staged an armed break. Later, Wilson learned that the jailbreakers had intended to kidnap him as a hostage...