Word: warden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...childhood (at a girls' institution, she was once punished by being locked overnight in a room with a corpse) through her angry encounters with racism to the mounting drug problems that eventually killed her at age 44. The research is impressive; witnesses range from Bandleader Artie Shaw to the warden's secretary at the federal prison where Holiday spent ten months on drug charges ("To my knowledge," the secretary recalls of the singer's stay there, "she never sang a note"). Best of all are the copious samples of her singing, many of them culled from rarely seen movies...
...Hotchkin '88 3:18:25 Jeffrey Calcagno '82 3:20 Mike Johnson '86 3:20 Karl Haas '86 3:24 Brian Johnston '86 3:24 Joe Dhillon 1L 3:25 Steve Smith '87 3:26 John P. Nicholas '85-'86 3:33 Julie Mihelhic '86 3:33:07 Toby Warden '89 3:34:03 Dave Flanagan '87 3:34:50 Pietro Satriano '89 3:35 Kerry Newman '87 3:37 Helena Buonanno '86 3:38 Kevin Mohan '86 3:38 Jim Warner '86 3:38 John P. Daley '86 3:40 Armand Nicholi '87 3:40 Jim Nagengas...
...There are three things you need to run a prison," said W.S. Neil, onetime warden of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville, "a checkbook, a shotgun and the strap." Until the legislature outlawed corporal punishment, Neil routinely ordered the flogging of inmates with a leather strap. Now, as in those days of a generation ago, Tennessee has serious problems with its underfinanced and overcrowded penal system. In July there were riots at three prisons. In October a U.S. judge barred wardens from accepting any more inmates until the prison population was drastically cut. Last month a Memphis sheriff, with...
Assad managed to extract an important clarification from each side. No happier than France or Switzerland to act as a warden over U.S. prisoners, he - persuaded Berri to stop demanding that the hostages remain in Syria until all of Israel's detainees were released. Conversely, from Washington he won an assurance that those detainees would be granted their freedom. Ironically, in the same Friday speech that evidently angered Berri, Reagan carefully reaffirmed that fact. "Israel had always intended to release them and had made that very clear," said the President...
...themselves after classes. She forbade Olga to wear tight jeans and bright tops like the other girls. During vacations, she kept Olga from playing with the children of Cambridge acquaintances. Says Fay Black, then a part-time teacher at Olga's school: "Her mother clung to her like a warden to a prisoner. The child's only hope was to go back to school...