Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brother." The hero is an anonymous Flemish prisoner, tortured with hopes of liberty by an inquisitor-jailer who gently calls him "My brother" and assures him that Flanders will soon be freed from Spain. After the jailer has departed one evening, the prisoner notices his cell door has been left open. He creeps down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach...
Lifting tackle was rigged under his arms, hauled tight. He groaned with pain. Fifteen minutes, a half hour, three-quarters of an hour passed before his rescuers freed his leg. Then, after 27½ hours, he sagged limply. "Pa!" his son called. "Pop!" There was no answer. The mud-stained, exhausted doctor climbed down into the pit, came up slowly with his face lined and sad. Dominick was dead...
...16th Armored Division of General George Patton's Third Army freed the Czech city of Pilsen from the Germans. Two weeks ago the U.S. Embassy in Prague notified the Czechoslovak government of American intentions to hold a small ceremony in Pilsen in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the freeing of the city. From the Czech Foreign Ministry came a prompt and frigid reply: "In view of the fact that the Czechoslovak government is organizing the celebrations of the . . . liberation of the Republic ... it does not consider the celebrations by the American Embassy as desirable...
...space freed in Langdell will be used for more offices for the faculty which has increased in number this year...
...Japanese Communists, Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga, occupied adjoining prison cells for 17 years, used to tap messages to each other through the wall. Since they were freed at war's end, communication between Tokuda and Shiga has grown more difficult. Threes weeks ago it broke down badly in a row that all but split Japan's Communist Party...