Word: warden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addlescence. In Segoville, Texas, Mae Hancock went to police and asked them to arrest her two boys because "I can't do a thing with them," the cops went to the Hancock house, found Warden, 54, and Guy, 52, sprawled out drunk in the carport...
...other examples range from brainwashing techniques of the Chinese Communists to the more beneficent therapies of a Californian penal system. In Brave New World Huxley had his director of Hatcheries and Conditioning use a technique called hypnopaedia, by which subjects got moral training during sleep. In 1957 the warden of the Woodland Road Camp of Tulare County, Calif, was doing just that. With pillow loudspeakers, the warden was able to reach certain delinquents in their sleep, and from a phonograph in his office counsel them to be good. The black arts of hypnosis, subliminal commercials and so on are becoming...
...claim. One reason is that many really unstable countries, e.g., Indonesia, have not signed up. But the most significant reason is that the agreements impress member nations with a sense of responsibility before the world, help make them think twice before permitting or taking any wild action. Says Charles Warden, director of the program: "Our agreement with the country means that the government has taken the first step in recognizing the international morality of contracts. The presence of agreements has a very healthy effect. The absence is worrisome...
Krim's first rebellion was against his father, a garde chamèptre (rural warden) in the mountainous, impoverished Kabylia region of eastern Algeria. His father, an old-fashioned Berber patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically...
Sinker. In Burnet, Texas, Dave Hawk took a commanding lead in the state bass-fishing tournament, reached shore, was given a summons by a game warden for catching too many fish...