Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lock all controls on the Air Force's enormous double-decked troop-carrying C124 Globemasters, pilots have to pull up a knob on the throttle pedestal. To release them before a takeoff, it is necessary to push the knob down past four notches: the throttles are freed at the first notch, the ailerons are unlocked at the second...
Jacob Lewis, one of the gang who staged the Coop "smoke-bomb" robbery four years ago, was freed from State Prison yesterday. The state supreme court, upholding his appeal for a sentence of larceny, not robbery as originally given, took into account that he had already served the minimum four years, and gave him his liberty...
...perhaps were true, it would be true only until 1931, when I revolted against Fascism . . . From 1931 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943, I was arrested eleven times. In 1933, I was placed in prison and then sentenced to five years on the island concentration camp of Lipari. Freed in 1938, I still remained under police control and was put in prison as a preventive measure every time a Nazi chief visited Rome. In 1939, being sent to Ethiopia by the Corriere delta Sera to write some articles about the life of the natives, I was accompanied...
When Kansas-born Earl Browder, No. 1 open Communist in the U.S., was freed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 after serving 14 months of a four-year term for passport fraud, the comrades and New Dealers cheered F.D.R.'s magnanimity...
Last week, after they had spent nine days in jail, the Browders managed to raise the $5,000 bail, and were freed to await trial. The lawyer who showed up to represent them: O. John Rogge, an Assistant Attorney General (1939-40) in the Roosevelt Administration and special assistant to the Attorney General for the Nazi sedition trial of 1944. Rogge, once a darling of the Communists, is now the U.S. lawyer representing Marshal Tito's anti-Stalinist Communist government of Yugoslavia...