Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street last week, barely five weeks after it had been freed from controls to establish its own value, the Canadian dollar hit par with the U.S. dollar. Across the world, in the free markets of Paris, Milan, Tangier and Beirut, Canadian dollars were suddenly in such brisk demand that money-changers priced them at 101 U.S. cents. In the confused hippodrome of international finance, the wide, moss-green Bank of Canada banknote was running neck & neck with the U.S. dollar as the world's most desirable currency...
...tough job is getting back, chased by enraged Seminoles and burdened by a party of hostages freed at the fort, including Mari Aldon, a new blonde starlet whose specialty seems to be breasting her way through thick undergrowth. When all seems lost, Cooper, like Hero Gable (see above), forces a decision in a hand-to-hand fight with the Seminole chief, this time with knives under water...
...sent five players to prison for terms ranging from six months to three years. He freed nine on probation, and he sent Master Fixer Salvatore Sollazzo to prison for an 8-to-16-year term. But before the shocked and shaken prisoners were led away, Judge Streit angrily underlined one inescapable fact: "The responsibility . . . must be shared not only by the crooked fixers and the corrupt players, but also by the college administrations, coaches and alumni groups...
Chief reason for the increase was a decision by varsity Coach Cooney Welland to abolish morning practices. This freed the ice of the Boston Skating Club for use by the Houses. Welland has also eliminated Thursday afternoon practice--to allow for labs and late exams--so that additional time at the Arena will be available to the Houses...
...Critical Faculty. In East Hartford, Conn., after Mrs. Howard Manley had her husband arrested for cutting the cord of their TV set during a quarrel over what programs to watch, Judge Alvin Leone sampled some of the shows Mrs. Manley preferred, promptly freed critic Manley...