Word: freed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime suspect" in the murders as well. Lewis was already wanted in Kansas City on charges involving credit-card and land swindles last year. In 1978 he was freed on a legal technicality despite evidence linking him to a Kansas City mutilation slaying...
...tempting to extort $ 1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the manufacturers of Tylenol, with a handwritten note demanding money "if you want to stop the killing." But when his picture flashed on the TV news, detectives in Kansas City recognized him as James W. Lewis, who had been freed on murder charges stemming from the 1978 mutilation in Kansas City of one Raymond West. A nationwide arrest alert was ordered...
...planes were returned to standby. The Americans, presumably, were back in prison. Again I began to fear that the hostages would not be freed. The chance of their release on Monday had now passed; we would have only one more chance before I left office...
...disagreeing with former critics of his methods, has noticeably reined in his writing in the past few years. His style has become tougher and more concrete. Says Author Roger Angell, who edits the Updike stories that appear in The New Yorker: "It seems to me that he's freed his writing from brilliance. He is a brilliant writer. But his prose has the brilliance of crystal; you can see through it. In reading the early Updike, you were aware of the writer. But now you find that all his perception and intelligence are being brought to bear on doing...
...Their leader turned out to be a stocky, thirtyish chain smoker known as Chief 1, who impressed the group of hostages with his relative calm and compassion. He released the wounded and female hostages when the government said it would not negotiate otherwise. As time wore on, the gunmen freed other prisoners in groups...