Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back room. "I've been expecting you," he said, sadly, "but I didn't know when. It's all there-He waved a hand at a vat in which he was "cooking" a $10 plate; at his seals, press and paper. Then Hugo went off to jail...
...good measure, there are two additional sections in the bill, one providing 10 years in jail and $10,000 fine for anyone who transmits "classified" material to foreign agents or members of "Communist organizations," the other levelling the same penalties against anyone who "knowingly combines, conspires, or agrees with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship the direction and control of which is to be vested in, or exercised by or under the domination or control of any foreign government, foreign organization, or foreign individual...
...troops went ashore on Tonga with orders to "take the island and destroy the enemy." The invaders were met by a group of friendly Tongans who explained that they had heard of Pearl Harbor long before, had promptly tossed all of the islands' 100-odd Japanese into jail in the capital city of Nukualofa. Later, thousands of other Allied soldiers stopped off at the Tongan Islands on their way to & from the Pacific battlefronts. During this time, Queen Salote wisely instructed her people to retire to the interior, safely avoided any entanglements, economic or romantic, between the Tongans...
...step toward totalitarianism." In the Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Florabel Muir asked: "I 'wonder how many U.S. Senators could pass a purity test?" In a column titled "Look Who's Talking!" the Hollywood Reporter's William R. ("Billy") Wilkerson pointed out that "Parnell Thomas is in jail for stealing Government funds . . . Andrew May is in jail for accepting bribes...
...City Infirmary, but the lady-in-charge said that it was too late for those old people there to drink coffee. "What about the firemen and the policemen, we could take it by there, they've been out in this with us this afternoon . . . Or the city jail? Does anyone know where the city jail...