Word: warden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Precinct warden Annie Scanlon, who brought a portable television to entertain herself, said "I've been here for [43] years, and I don't remember anything like this...
...here we were for one more try, in the visitors' tank at the federal pen in San Diego, waiting for the stone-faced warden to decide whether or not to allow our visit. I was no stranger to pulling time, but mine was six months at a work camp in the redwoods. While we cooled our heels, I could only imagine Tim's predicament: a middle-aged West Point alum and discredited Harvard instructor serving a sentence in this skyless scene. No wonder he let the Weathermen talk him into that swashbuckling escape the year before from San Luis Obispo...
...still basically the same: there are a bunch of women locked in a small, dirty space; some of them are lesbians; they are all rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...
...crowd's good-natured cheering seems to indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...
Then, The Crimson reported, "Lowenstein's second long pass was complete to O'Neill on the 37, and on the next play Dave Warden with a thirty yard pass went all the way down the right side line for a Harvard touchdown at ten minutes and 17 seconds of the last period. Dick Hyde missed the extra point...