Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jury found Gravitt guilty of involuntary manslaughter, recommended a year to 18 months in jail (he will be eligible for parole in four months). The judge let Gravitt go free for a week before sentencing...
...clapped at the sight of Jimmy Roosevelt emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs. In the midst of it all stood Jimmy, bald, tall...
...from a slum who got rich in the rackets: in his day the U.S. had become as much a land of opportunity for the graduate of Dannemora as for the graduate of Dartmouth. But Frank Costello had the brains, luck and jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
...Rebellion!" cried Chanis. "I will retain the presidency until I am killed." Vallarino sat tight. In some confusion the President asked Remón to reason with his stubborn lieutenant. Chichi Remón indignantly refused to negotiate while under arrest, so he was set free. Vallarino rushed a patrol car for his boss, then Remón took command and moved fast. Police squads were deployed around Panama City, the newspapers were temporarily shut down, the telephone exchange was taken over and ordered to complete calls only to or from police headquarters. Then Chichi Remón sent...
...Foundation for Advanced Study and Research-with no strings on how the gift should be used. Beamed Provost Buck: ". . . A sign of the current trend of broad support of private education by private enterprise. Enlightened management now realizes it can best serve the cause of private education as a free enterprise if it provides free funds without attaching limiting restrictions...