Word: furlough
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...were letting out murderers on furlough," Weld said. "You were sending sex offenders home for the weekend...
...suicide after losing her business to the persecution of the Federal Drug Administration, and thus argued for the agency's abolition? Or take a real instance: when the Bush campaign in 1988 speared Dukakis with the story of a horrible crime committed by a murderer let out on furlough, the tactic was condemned as demagoguery. Why? Because the validity of an argument is not proved by the emotional intensity of the proponent...
Although January intersession provides some respite, it is not until summer that I cast off the leg-irons of heavy syllabi and give myself a three-month furlough...
...Hulce) is a young man with the most intense growing pains--Beauty's Beast, but without the majesty. Imprisoned in the Notre Dame bell tower by his master, the imperious Judge Frollo (Tony Jay), Quasi pines to be among the people he sees from above. His one furlough has him crowned King of Fools and leads to his lovestruck meeting with the Gypsy Esmeralda (the indomitably spunky Demi Moore). Frollo, to his surprise and shame, loves...
...Marius, our favorite, a furlough in Nome...