Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, shambling, cross-eyed and bespectacled, Petersen flushed and hung his head when arraigned. At first, he did not want a hearing, a lawyer or any attempt to get freedom on bail. Born in New Orleans, he went to Catholic schools and took a master's degree in science at St. Louis University. He taught physics before entering the Government...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...
...suit and a pressure suit, plus helmet and gloves, the pilot must wear protection against cold and immersion (he might have to bail out over the ocean). This means a quilted "liner," much like the Chinese army's winter gear (gadgeteers are trying to save weight and bulk by getting rid of the quilting), with a waterproof suit worn over everything...
Worthy Cause. In El Paso, police began looking for a magazine salesman who told prospective customers that he was trying to raise money to bail his grandmother out of jail...
...Placerville, Calif., a cop succeeded where many an oldtime American League catcher had failed: he caught baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb, 67, trying to steal home (to nearby Nevada). Booked for drunken driving and having no license, Midnight Rider Cobb was soon sprung on $315 bail...