Word: abscond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police cruisers guarded the city's Public Works garage all night Thursday as mechanics prepared the fire engine for its 1100-mile safari. Numerous phone calls warned the fire officials that the Lampoon was planning to abscond with the engine and, according to one official, threatened "to keep it longer than we kept the Codfish out of the State House...
...appeals to argue that the bonds should be reinstated, at least until Judge Ryan got through investigating the Civil Rights Congress. Appeals Judge Learned Hand, temporarily back from retirement, ruled that that was right. "An outrage!" shouted Irving Saypol. Retorted Judge Hand: "These men are not likely to abscond." Cried Saypol: "What -after eight have absconded!" Saypol lost this round, but this week he won the next. Judge Ryan upheld Saypol's contention that the Communists' bail was tainted. Unless they can get bail from another source, the Communists will have to await trial behind bars...