Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world opinion, had purged the army and party structure wide and deep, Khrushchev had gone to great lengths to establish support among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers. He had relaxed the police control, freed many prisoners; he had associated himself with such popular projects as better housing, free farming, decentralized industry, and freedom from the threat...
...Invalidated, 6 to 3, an Illinois statute that freed the American
Express Co. (because it is "a worldwide enterprise of unquestioned
solvency and high financial standing") from the requirement that
money-order firms must secure a license and submit to state regulation.
Righting the Wrongs. Reviewing the disaster, Hanoi newspapers confessed: "We have killed friends, struck comrades. The countryside was full of funeral altars and mourning widows wearing white turbans around their heads." Twelve thousand "falsely accused" peasants were freed; rehabilitated landlords were promised their land back. For some 15,000 men who had been tortured and flung into common graves, the regime offered decent graves and public funerals. Comrades executed by "mistake" were posthumously declared "national heroes...
Putting the living back together again would not be easy. Freed landlords went back to their villages, threw the squatters off their old property, beat up those who had denounced them. Sometimes the new owners cut down fruit trees, stripped the houses, killed the cows and buffaloes and ate them rather than give them back. Warned Nguyen Manh Tuong, dean of the Hanoi Law School: "The movement of revenge is widespread all over the country, and is pushing us back to the dark ages of prehistoric barbarism...
Colombia, one of the most dogged advocates of government economic meddling, last week abruptly freed its long-pegged peso. Officially traded at 2½ to the dollar before the freeing, the peso promptly dropped to 6¼. Result expected: encouragement for the producers of dollar-earning exports (chiefly coffee), discouragement of dollar-draining imports, reduction of a towering trade debt estimated at $200 million...