Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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busters, nabs, fuzz, Charlie Goons, Charlie Nebs, blue boys, bluebirds, do-right daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
...markets, where grain brings premium prices. It was months later that a U.S. embassy official in Vienna compared shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country's history, for "mis-labeling." Since the U.S. Government demands cash or letters of credit in advance from U.S. exporters involved in grain barter deals, the U.S. stands to incur no direct losses...
...took three actions. It set higher interest rates on short-term borrowing, put indirect controls on longer-term exports of U.S. money, and surprisingly indicated a readiness to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, which the U.S. originally helped to set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 to bail out poorer foreign countries...
...when Martin Luther King was jailed in Atlanta for leading an anti-segregation demonstration. Bobby telephoned the judge in Atlanta in an effort to get King sprung. Whether or not the call actually swayed the judge, the Kennedys got full credit among U.S. Negroes when King was released on bail the following...
...height of the demonstration, five undergraduate and three Cambridge youths were arrested by Cambridge police and charged with disturbing the peace. Students were allowed to contract friends and lawyers, and most were expected to be out on bail by morning. No immediate aid was forthcoming from the University, however, "This is no time to ball them out," Dean Watson commented late last night. "We'll let them spend the night in there...