Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amnesty, signed by Voroshilov, for short-term prisoners; 2) foreigners held in Soviet prisons on espionage counts were released; 3) retail prices were reduced on 125 categories of consumer goods; 4) the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the doctors' plot was a frame-up, freed the doctors who had been unjustly tortured; 5) a year-long purge in Georgia was ended with the appointment of a new Premier and new party secretaries; 6) the Communists in Korea announced that they were ready to make important concessions to get a truce; 7) in Austria and in East Germany there...
Humphrey, the architect of the Administration's tighter-money policy, agreed with the Federal Reserve Board on what to do. For the first time since 1949, the FRB lowered its reserve requirements for member banks, enough to free $1.1 billion. Since every such freed dollar liberated about $5 in additional credit, the move made available about $5.5 billion for loans...
...from a rope plant and tractor factory, they marched around the mill demanding lower production norms and a 40% cut in prices, shouted for overthrow of the Communist regime, tore down Communist posters, ripped party pins off Communist lapels. They marched on Brandenburg proper, stormed the city prison and freed political prisoners. They spotted the district attorney, seized him, handcuffed him, threw him atop a police car and beat him to death. A "people's judge," found cowering in the courthouse, was mauled, had one of his ears ripped off before a friend saved him. Soviet tanks and Volkspolizei...
...Several victims of Parkinson's disease, for which no effective treatment had been known, have been freed of their uncontrollable shaking and restored to near-normal life by a new brain operation, reported New York University's Dr. Irving S. Cooper. Discovered by chance when an accident happened during surgery for another purpose, the operation involves opening the skull and shutting down an artery in the brain with silver clamps which are left in place. One patient, so palsied for 18 years that he could not stand, hold a book, feed or clothe himself, now does all those...
...economy was freed of wage & price controls...