Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News that Corporal Ralph Meier of White Lake, S.Dak. had been freed by the Communists prompted some soul-searching by his 17-year-old wife Avis. Last March, after having heard the previous fall that Meier had died in prison camp, Avis Meier married Herald Kapsch of Mitchell, S.Dak. When a G.I. released last April in Operation Little Switch reported Meier alive, she had her second marriage annulled, but she hasn't made up her mind about the future. Says she: "I was so sure Ralph was dead, and my whole life had taken on a new direction...
...James Hern, whom she married two years after Cogburn was reported missing and presumed dead. Ava Nell, who has a six-year-old son by her first marriage and a month-old daughter by the second, hopes to divorce Cogburn, remarry Hern and keep both children. In Korea newly freed Jimmie Cogburn, who had joined the Army against Ava Nell's wishes, met the news of her remarriage with a low-voiced question: "What...
Freedom to Starve. Most were not so lucky. French law provided that anyone serving under eight years had to stay in Guiana as a libéré, or freed prisoner, for another period equal at least to that of his sentence; anyone sentenced for more than eight years had to remain in the colony for life. About all that differentiated the libérés from the prisoners was the fact that the freed men had to scratch and beg for their living, while the prisoners at least got fed. Money or influence might buy a man special...
Last January the British arrested Naumann and six associates, three of them ex-Gauleiter, on charges of conspiracy. Germans hissed and booed, but after a close look at the evidence, Bonn's Minister of Justice agreed that the danger was "acute." Naumann went to jail, but later was freed without trial...
...millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...