Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November, Professor Boudarel told the prisoners: "You are now new men. My government has pardoned you. You will soon be freed." They were fattened up, treated in a hospital, equipped with shoes (Leriche had had none for eight months). As the lucky 109 headed across the paddyfields toward freedom. Professor Boudarel began singing "Madelon." On hearing that Jean Leriche burst into tears...
Rawalpindi, the Pakistani suddenly freed Ghaffar Khan, along with 44 other political prisoners. Probable motive: to give a more convincing ring to Pakistan's protests against India's jailing of the deposed Sheik Abdullah of Kashmir. The Indians, who had long agitated for Ghaffar Khan's release, front-paged the good news. They got a shock when, upon leaving jail. Ghaffar Khan proved to be as independent and plain-speaking as ever. To the cheering crowds who garlanded him with flowers, he declared that Kashmir rightfully belongs to Pakistan-and that he had twice offered his services...
...County for fines for reckless driving and bootlegging. Sheriff Hill, Bessemer police said, was to drive over to nearby Birmingham and pick Jones up. Jones's wife, knowing her husband's fear of Hill, collected enough money to pay the fines, but was unable to get Jones freed, despite frantic efforts. Sheriff Hill arrived at 2:30 a.m. and drove away with the handcuffed Jones. Mrs. Jones watched, afraid even to call out goodbye to her husband. She never saw Moses again. The undertaking attendant got his orders a few hours later, and the Government was fast running...
Part of the reason for this standard of living was that the year was free of industry-wide strikes and had far fewer minor stoppages (27 million man-days lost v. 59.1 million in 1952). The Eisenhower Administration, which freed wages and prices from controls, also thought that collective bargaining should be free from the kind of governmental interference that contributed so directly to the long steel strike of 1952. With the bargaining balance restored, both labor and management found it to their advantage to come to terms...
...educated has been in dispute in the U.S. ever since Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal." Before the Civil War, teaching a slave to read was a crime punishable by imprisonment in some Southern states. But after the war, there was a crusade to raise the freed slave's status. It was led by two white men: Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts...