Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western diplomats had been inclined to dismiss talk of an Afro-Asian conference as little more than a frisky showing-off by the young governments of the world's recently freed colonial areas. But when they read the Prime Ministers' statement of principles, the agenda and the guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder...
Jones said the plan might work a hardship on teachers in large courses, but added that the closer relationship with students would help offset inconveniences. 'More scholarship money will also be freed by the cut in office expenses," he said...
...college-boy role Duane has stolen jewelry from University rooms valued at over $2000, according to Murphy. This includes burglaries committed over five years ago, when Duane was arrested and sent to prison. "Ever since he was freed a year ago, Duane has been under suspicion," Murphy added...
...major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that he was a "Chicago boy," Dale emphasized how tough he was; he bragged that he had been indicted for murder on another construction job. (Actually indicted for conspiracy to assault, Dale was freed for lack of evidence.) Then he laid down his terms. Ebasco could have labor peace on the projects if it would "do business the customary way," i.e., kick back 1% on the $197,000,000 contract. When Ebasco refused, Dale went to work...
Goodbye It looked for a time as though the world might learn some of the answers to a perplexing intrigue of the cold war: the case of the American ex-diplomat Noel Field, and his wife Herta. When the Hungarian government suddenly freed them after five years in prison on trumped-up spy charges, U.S. diplomatic officials in Budapest saw them briefly. It was possibly the last meeting Noel and Herta Field would ever have with their countrymen. Over Budapest radio last week came the announcement that Noel and Herta Field had asked for and had been granted "political asylum...