Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared a 7,000-acre tract of kans, the Indian government swung a $10 million loan from the World Bank, bought 240 more U.S. tractors, equipped them with specially designed root-cutting plows. Peasants who saw others' fields freed of the weed begged to have their own plowed, and draped the tractors with blossoms...
Last year Sethi's big offensive cleared 80,000 acres of kans. By last week, with the monsoon rains expected, Sethi's tractors had rumbled to a stop for a well-earned rest. Their labors this year had freed close to 300,000 acres of wheatfields from kans, reclaimed another 30,000 acres from the jungle. The extra food they had produced in five months alone was estimated at 100,000 tons, a great victory for India, and for Western machines...
Jesus Salas Barrazas was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. After serving a month, he was freed and joined the army. Last week, a retired colonel at 63, Barrazas suffered a stroke in Mexico City. "I'm not a murderer. I rid humanity of a monster," he mumbled. Then he died...
...Egypt. He joined the British army, persuaded the brass to let him organize a unit of Commandos, who dubbed him "Popski" because of his tongue-tangling name. "Popski's Private Army" (its officially approved title) spent most of the war behind Axis lines in Africa and Italy, reconnoitered, freed prisoners, blew up fuel dumps, sometimes diverted whole enemy divisions to counter "major attacks" which turned out to be Popski's lightning jabs...
...Tubman has extended the vote to Liberia's women and the hinterland tribesmen, but he also got Liberia's constitution amended to permit the President to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms. Tubman's True Whig Party, representing the descendants of the 15,000 freed U.S. slaves who first settled the nation, has ruled over Liberia almost without interruption since...