Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press greeted the 1947 Arboretum expedition with a flood of publicity and two different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
...conviction of two Bridges aides for conspiring to defraud the Government at his naturalization hearing. Bridges, under sentence of five years and free under $25,000 bail, will appeal...
When the news got to Chicago. Mickey's father man-of-the-worlded the whole escapade. "Mickey," he said, "just likes good-looking girls." Sprung on $50,000 bail, Mickey took the same line. Miss Eder, he said, was his "steady girl." "I've been going with her for six months. We are not engaged. She is above reproach." As for the charges: just spite work by an 18-year-old girl who might consider that he had jilted...
...Secret Kept. A month later, Gavenda, veteran of 30 border crossings, dragged the exhausted Bures across the frontier into the safety of West Germany. They brought to U.S. Intelligence the first news that John Hvasta of Hillside, N.J., a Czech-born naturalized American had jumped bail. Hvasta had been snatched from his job in the U.S. consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed...
...anti-Malan African National Congress. He asked permission to attend his last patient and they agreed. Then Moroka, a devout Christian and moderate who believes that "white and black need each other," was led off to jail, charged with "promoting the objects of Communism," and released on $280 bail. He appealed to black South Africans to "stay calm and behave with dignity...