Word: freedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Carter and the Department of Justice agreed with those pleas, and last week after a presidential commutation, Patty Hearst was freed from a California prison, five months before she was eligible for parole. She had served 22 months and 17 days of her seven-year sentence for her part in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in April...
What most outraged Blanton's critics was the fact that among the convicts he freed last week was Roger Humphreys, 32, whose father Frank is a political ally and former chairman of Blanton's patronage committee in Washington County. Young Humphreys was serving a 20-year term in the Tennessee State Penitentiary for having murdered his ex-wife and her lover in 1973. He was convicted of killing the two after first having breakfast with them at his ex-wife's apartment. He had used a double-barreled derringer, reloading it at least eight times, to stitch...
...last of the Watergate convicts, former Attorney General John Mitchell, was freed from an Alabama federal prison last week after serving 14 months of his one-to four-year sentence. Meanwhile, the Watergate judge, John Sirica, was dotting the i's on his forthcoming book To Set the Record Straight (W.W. Norton; $15). The judge, now 74 and semiretired, drew upon impressions he jotted down during the trial: how the witnesses and defendants looked and acted, whether he felt they were telling the truth or "exaggerating." The actual work took place at his Washington home, in a study with...
Such idyllic images of childhood, however, were not limited to portraits commissioned by the wealthy. Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
Enactment of the energy bill in November has freed large amounts of the fuel for interstate sale, and this has put the Carter Administration in the welcome but confusing position of having to do an about-face on gas policy. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger still wants industrial and commercial users to switch to coal, which is by far the nation's most plentiful fossil fuel. To help alleviate the gas glut, however, he would also like any user that has already disconnected from gas and shifted to fuel oil to switch back...