Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once freed, Sorokin still refused to collaborate with the Bolsheviks and after several close escapes, managed to smuggle himself out of the country. "What a relief," he recalls, "to cross the border and know that this time they could not come after me." Sorokin's last flight from Russia marked the end of an active, fifteen-year career as a revolutionary and gave him the opportunity to continue his work in sociology. Before leaving Russia in 1922, he had become prominent in both fields...
...children of a "capitalist," they were refused further education, and set, under police supervision, to learning trades. In 1952 they were moved to another village, put to farm labor. But in March both the boys and their grandmother were freed and taken to Bucharest. Costa and Peter got travel certificates and were finally delivered to the U.S. legation...
...welcome banner. Next day Alexander, a Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...
...written opinion. Once, in court, while covering the arraignment before a federal commissioner of a man charged with stealing, Webster decided that the evidence had been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment (illegal search and seizure). Webster took over as the man's lawyer and got him freed...
...Vision. Gollwitzer surrendered to the Russians on Ascension Day, May 10, 1945. For a while, despite cases of Soviet brutality, he and his comrades were sanguine about their fate. A Soviet cultural officer made a speech, in fluent German, about the cultural revival of the German people, freed at last from Hitlerism. Wrote Gollwitzer: "Our hearts swelled. The vision of a new land opened before...