Word: freed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reconstruction era law was designed to protect the newly freed slaves from loss of constitutional rights. In 1874 it was revised to refer to violations of federal laws as well. Still, until the Thiboutots used the statute, it was doubtful whether it could be employed to sue for anything other than deprivation of civil rights...
...unit's mystique ever since it was founded in the Libyan desert in 1942. The goal then was to penetrate and operate behind enemy lines in North Africa. Moving swiftly and with seemingly phantom-like invisibility, the S.A.S. destroyed hundreds of Nazi planes on their own airstrips, freed countless Allied prisoners and blew up scores of Axis ammunition dumps. The commandos were also sent on missions to assassinate leading Axis generals. One of the unit's few known failures involved an attempt to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the top German commander in Africa. The Germans soon came...
Equally important, 76er management traded away two of the team's bigger ball hogs, George McGinnis and Lloyd Free, then moved 7-ft. Center Caldwell Jones to forward to ease Erving's rebounding burden. Freed at last to work his moves on the outside and levitate past foot-tangled defenders, Erving became the Dr. J of old. After he scored a career-high 44 points against Houston, Rockets Coach Del Harris said: "You couldn't have stopped him with a hockey stick. We had a whole committee of people on him, and they couldn't begin...
...least one hostage was freed by Jimmy Carter's aborted rescue raid: the one in the White House. Five days after the failed mission to save the 53 American captives in Tehran, the President jettisoned his six-month-old pledge not to campaign until the hostages were home. Speaking at an energy briefing in the East Room, Carter lamely explained that the nation's problems "are manageable enough for me to leave the White House for a limited travel schedule, including some campaigning if I choose...
...attack in 1915, a Circassian cavalryman impaled Tito with his lance, nearly killing him; he spent 13 months in a Russian prison hospital. He was an inmate of the Kungur prison camp near Perm in 1917 when the news arrived of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication; citizens promptly freed Kungur's prisoners...