Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the posting of bail, Pepe allowed the band to leave, with the warning: "These things have gone too far. There won't be any next time...
...tireless comic-strip crusade against criminals with brutal habits and oddly shaped heads, Detective Dick Tracy has had an invaluable mechanical ally: "The two-way wrist radio." Its secret communicating power, unknown to the bad men, constantly helps bail Tracy and his friends out of trouble. In the current installment, for instance, it may prove very useful to a wealthy gentleman named Uncle Kincaid Plenty. Locked up in a TNT plastic vest with a time-bomb mechanism, Uncle Kincaid is being taken for a ride by a knife-wielding criminal named 3-D Magee. But the sounds coming over Kincaid...
...might need in an emergency, e.g., a set of Steuben crystal plates with Mexico's crest "because sooner or later somebody will be going to call on the President of Mexico and need a proper gift." For particular customers, Marcus will go to any lengths. He has provided bail for customers pinched on a toot, on a few hours' notice once rounded up a steer's skull for a banker who wanted to take one back East for an artist friend. One oilman, who had bought thousands of dollars worth of gifts for his family, due back...
...tagged him on the spot with a fingerprint test as Robert Thompson, one of the eleven top Communist leaders who were convicted in 1949 of violation of the Smith Act. Two years ago, ordered to report to begin his three-year penitentiary term, he jumped bail, disappeared into the Communist underground...
...desperation, King went aft into the cargo hatch, where twelve frightened passengers waited for the order to bail out. For the first time, he noticed the cargo: case after case of salad oil. King poured the salad oil into the faulty hydraulic system. The gear lowered smoothly, the plane landed safely, and Captain King and his grateful passengers shook hands and said goodnight...