Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was he freed than he resumed his career, took the name of one Dr. Cecil Hamann, studied law at night at Northeastern University in Boston for a year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...girl, condemned to death by the Nazis for her work in the underground and awaiting execution at the Waldheim prison in southeastern Germany. Her story begins with the carnival of freedom that occurs when Waldheim is captured in 1945 by the advancing Russians. In those first hysterical days, the freed prisoners are as vindictive as a wolf pack. Captured guards are hurled to their death down a stairwell; a brutal prison doctor is beaten insensible and shot. Henriette comes face to face with a woman guard she has sworn to kill: "I stared fixedly at the woman, at those coarse...
...shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop the pillage. Secret military courts were set up to try the arrested rioters. Last week came news that the First Chamber of Criminal Court had freed 23 persons charged with responsibility for the riots for "lack of evidence." At the same time, it was revealed that all the other prisoners had also gone scot free...
...polls, and of that number, 98.5% voted the straight Communist ticket. The result, which surprised even the Communists, was no indication of how the Polish people feel about Communism: it merely showed how much they preferred the Polish brand of Communism to Soviet intervention. Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski, recently freed from a Communist prison, had quietly advocated support of the party ticket, and his word was obviously effective in a land perhaps 95% Roman Catholic. This way Poland got a new Parliament, dominated by Communists, but with Democratic, Peasant and Catholic parties represented, which was far more than the Soviet...
...jinn. A man who steals pays with the loss of his hand; public amputations are commonplace (one result: Arabia has probably the lowest crime rate in the world). Social reform comes hard when slavery, sanctioned by Mohammed, still exists, though Saudis protest that slaves are well treated and often freed by owners eager to gain credit with Allah (old Ibn Saud used to release one every Friday after prayer). Tax reform is blocked by the Koran's ban on any personal tax on believers except the Zakaah, a small yearly levy paid to the sheik, who is instructed...