Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, as Lewin lolled in his penthouse in natty dark blue sports shirt and slacks, NBI agents burst in to haul him off to jail. He thought he could get out on bail easily-"Goddamit," roared Lewin through the cell door, "don't let me sleep here tonight"-but Lukban saw to it that Lewin spent the night in his cell. Next morning, as the fur began to fly. Garcia's Secretary of Justice Alejo Mabanag announced that NBI Chief Lukban would be fired "for the good of the service," and Lewin, free on bail, sped away...
...momentous; it was merely one of the minor but essential steps that must be taken before a rocket climbs into space carrying an astronaut (scheduled for late 1961).But it proved that if anything goes wrong on the early upward leg of such a flight, man can bail out and live...
Proving that old teamsters never die, fading ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, 65, convicted tax dodger out on bail pending his appeals, put on a natty brown suit, shuffled down to his Seattle parking lot, put in a day's work. Huffing and puffing, he explained: "Business was not building up the way it should...
When the disturbance ended, four Harvard and eight Princeton undergraduates were taken to police headquarters, where several, unable to raise bail, spent the night...
...past. (An example that still gravels Washington: in recent years the West German government has underwritten some $2 billion worth of West German sales to underdeveloped countries at terms so stiff-repayment in four years, 6% or more interest-that time and again the U.S. has been obliged to bail out the overcommitted debtor with a dollar loan...