Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddly matched articles-a pair of Argyle socks knitted by his wife, and his passport. The Embassy was acting on the suspicion that Oatis might need both for traveling. Fourteen hours later he did. Oatis was taken before a Czech Communist official and told that he had been freed. He was no more astounded than everyone else. The U.S. had apparently been making little progress in negotiations for his release, and only two weeks ago the Czechs announced that a new amnesty order for Czech prisoners did not apply to Oatis...
Avocation. In Aztec, N. Mex., Prisoner Elmer Morrow, acting as gardener for the courthouse grounds, was freed, but asked (and got) permission to stay in jail long enough to finish the spring planting...
...taught a lesson," said her host. "That damned Land League is ruining the country." When she asked her father about it, he said: "The people have a right to the land." Later, in France, someone asked her: "Why don't you free Ireland as Joan of Arc freed France?" It was like a mandate...
...happy in that. The world should thank you for not marrying me." She began campaigning for the release of Irish fighters serving life sentences in England's jails, and, after three trips to the U.S. raising funds and commotion, had the British government so worried that they freed the prisoners...
...steelworkers. whose demands for another wage increase were called unjustifiable last week by Big Steel's Ben Fairless.) The fabricators raised the question whether steel, the bellwether of the economy, did not have a responsibility to hold the line on prices, now that the economy had been freed of controls. As one steel user said: "Either these fellows are going along with the new Administration or they aren't. I think they should come out in the open and admit they aren...