Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, chairmaned by Dr. Edward K. Barsky, now out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for contempt of Congress...
...South Africa's breezy Norbert S. Erleigh, whose ?100,000,000 New Union Goldfields empire was recently thrown into receivership (TIME, Nov. 24), was arrested on a charge of theft for borrowing ?352,875 from New Union without the board's permission. He was let out on bail after he promised not to 1) leave the country or 2) dabble in New Union business. He found these conditions infuriating. With two new gold strikes on lots adjoining properties controlled by New Union, it looked as if New Union might get back on its feet without Erleigh...
...could be blamed on the police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck for the city while out on bail in a rape case...
...never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about the newspaper business before he left it was a Hearst executive's dictum: "The public is interested in just three things: blood, money...
...been assigned to bomb a mountainside, so that rocks would fall and seal a railroad tunnel below. Over the target, a burst of flak knocked out one engine, then the other engine went out. When the order came to bail out, the tailgunner went out first, and got stuck in the escape hatch, pinned against the rear of it by the wind pressure. Chappuis kicked him in the only accessible place-his head -and knocked him loose. Then he jumped...