Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told how one of General Doolittle's flyers, forced to bail out on Chinese soil after bombing Tokyo, had seen the populace running toward him, had waved and shouted the only Chinese word he knew: "Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo"-America, America (literally, said Madame Chiang, "beautiful country"). "Our people laughed and almost hugged him and greeted him like a long-lost brother...
...jail, or both. Carl Daubendiek, father of six, was indicted, tried and found guilty. (A county poor overseer had testified she was held up in getting an ambulance for a patient, who later died.) This week, while a district judge pondered his sentence, Carl Daubendiek was out on bail. Jefferson telephone operators were eschewing editorial observations and confining themselves strictly to asking for the number, please...
...Union Club. Murphy high-tailed it for cover, untouched, and Madge gave up quietly. To police, who charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, she explained that she had wanted to scare him, that he had ditched her after his divorce and married somebody else. Released under $500 bail after promising to leave the lumberman alone, she recalled happily: "Boy, did he lose his dignity...
...felt it was a large, bad impulse. Ursula, still game after hectic questioning, haggard, her impulsive uncombed head under a badly tied turban, was freed on $1,000 bail. The near future held for her, first, the star witness part in an approaching Federal narcotics case. Those of the ex-bandsman's jive-plucking friends that could be reached mostly made the same comment: "Mike always was a damn good guitar player...
...Five of the six accused ringleaders were released on a paltry 2,000 pesos (about $500) bail...