Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border from Transjordan into Palestine. British sentries stopped them, demanded passports and press credentials-and the religion of each correspondent. Polk stated flatly that he had no religion. He was not Jewish, nor was he an atheist; he simply regarded the question as insulting to the concept of a free press. He refused, as a matter of principle, to dignify it with an answer. They finally, and very reluctantly, had to let him through...
...first time in its eleven years, the N.M.U.'s leadership was free of Communist-line henchmen...
Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles, Cuba and the Philippines, he was still only a first lieutenant...
...National Better Business Bureau, Inc. and the Association of National Advertisers had already objected to the FTC ruling, on the grounds that most "free" offers clearly stated the conditions in un-deceptive terms. The book men, given 20 days to answer the charges in court, lost no time in speaking their minds out of court. Said one book club official: "Perfect nonsense." In the Literary Guild's full-page ads this week, the most prominent word in the copy, in black, inch-high capitals, was FREE...
...Free passage to the phantoms of the mind...