Sentence:  Mrs. Blanche Dunkel , 60 , who has <WSD>spent</WSD> 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law , Ervin Lang , then 28 , appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members , John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  pass time in a specific way