Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circumstantial Corpus. Shortly after the police started looking into Evelyn's disappearance, a Los Angeles grand jury indicted Scott on 13 counts of forgery and theft. Jumping $25,000 bail, he fled to Canada. A year later Canadian customs officers arrested him as he was trying to re-enter Canada after buying a new 1957 Ford in Detroit. Meanwhile, the grand jury had reconsidered the case and returned a new indictment against Scott. The charge: murder...
Lieut. David Steeves, U.S.A.F.R., 23, still sticking to (or stuck with) his story of a fast bail-out and slow 54-day ordeal in the Sierra Nevada wilds (TIME, July 15, Aug. 26), was relieved from active duty at his own request, began scrounging for "some kind of flying job." Dave Steeves also has domestic troubles; his pretty wife Rita has left him, sees no hope of reunion because there is "no love" between them. But the crash of his marriage, disclosed Pilot Steeves in this month's Redbook magazine, had nothing to do with the crash...
...airplane is seriously damaged or if something has happened to its oxygen supply, the pilot must bail out. When he cuts loose, the quick-thinking suit switches to a bottle of oxygen in the parachute pack and keeps the man alive on the long fall toward earth...
...Lampoon Fools' Week joke backfired yesterday when one fool was arrested and jailed on charges of assaulting and robbing a fake Santa Claus. The fool was released on $1,000 bail pending arraignment today in district court...
Thompson then attempted to run off but was tackled by Patrolman Warren Jackson who took the fool to the Cambridge Police Station. Bail was originally set at $10,000, but acting Police Chief Richard J. Linehan later reduced it to $1,000 when informed it was a 'Poon stunt...