Word: captor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captor. In Key West, Deputy Sheriff Willie Kemp went out on his bicycle to make an arrest, returned on the handle bars, the prisoner pedaling...
...Drum beat that was a little too slick. On the maneuvers' first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken him to the prison camp." But the fact remained that Hugh Drum, by this and many another dodge that might have been employed against a real enemy, had won a battle...
Last week the first full-grown, live (but molting) quetzal ever to reach a northern city arrived in Manhattan in charge of its captor, voluble Explorer Victor Wolfgang von Hagen. Its destination: The Bronx for a rest, then St. Louis...