Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...housed the others well, and drafted an apology to their "parents, wives and sweethearts." The kidnaped men were equally gallant. "A swell guy, that Raúl Castro," said Edward Cannon, a builder from Cornwall, Ont., as he stepped off a helicopter at the base upon being freed. "We had good food and plenty of it, and beds with clean sheets," chimed in Henry Salmonson of Portland...
Repriever. In Newport. Ark., a bulldog just freed from the city pound tunneled his way back into the enclosure, helped open the way to escape for seven other dogs who were digging from the inside...
...high profits even when based, as at first, on low wages, 3) patient coddling of the fearful and uninformed investor with every kind of assistance. U.S. Federal income taxes do not apply in Puerto Rico, and any new business not provably running away from U.S. taxes or unions was freed from the island income tax for ten years. Profits could and did run to 60% of sales; Fomento Chief Moscoso says: "We found this not too high a price to pay for our accelerated rate of development...
...parachute out of a mortar-like container. It was a ribbon chute made of concentric rings of strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough balloon popped out of the side of the package and was inflated with compressed...
...France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...