Word: acquit
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...female operatives, Debby Reynolds and Jean Hagen, also acquit themselves with a heretofore concealed competence, and the general decor of the backgrounds is lush but not garish or offensive...
...from prosecution, the talkative general expected some assistance in return for his information. Although earlier acquit ted by a Polish War Crimes tribunal, he had been given a ten-year sentence two weeks ago by a German denazification court, for his part in atrocities in Poland. Now that he had solved the mystery of Göring's suicide, the general hoped, somewhat naively, that the U.S. would intervene to lighten his sentence...
...took the court a few hours to acquit the duchess, sentence Don Bernardo to 18 months in jail (two other defendants got shorter prison terms). After the trial, the duchess, chic and cool in a tailored grey suit and gunmetal-colored nylons, appeared on a balcony to greet the crowds waiting in the street 'below. Then she went home. She immediately sent a message to Don Juan, exiled pretender to the Spanish throne. Said she: "I have cabled my King that I am free...
...partisans were at fault in the Boston Massacre and that the accused British soldiery would not get a proper defense, he fearlessly risked his life and career to defend them against the charge of murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother to campaign...
...persuaded him to give up farming and sent him to college at 20, he worked as hard at Yale as if he were plowing a rocky patch of land. To the frequent ridicule of his fellow students, he would reply that he studied hard "in order that he might acquit himself creditably when he should become a member of Congress...