Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staggering Fine. In 1949 his luck wavered. Found guilty in Paris of speculation, tax evasion and "illicit profitmaking," Joanovici was sentenced to five years in prison and fined a staggering billion francs (roughly $3,000,000). After serving two years, he was let out but confined to the small southern city of Mende (pop. 7,700) in one of the most impoverished areas of France. Within months, Mende was a boom town. A telephone operator had to be hired whose sole job was handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs...
When Wladyslaw Gomulka was swept into power in the 1956 Warsaw upheaval, one of his first concessions was to abolish forced collectivization of agriculture and let peasants go back to farming their own land in their old individual way. So swift was the rush to private ownership that within weeks collective farms had all but disappeared from the Polish countryside...
...June afternoon in 1822, a gun went off accidentally and blasted a gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days he had a hole in his abdominal wall leading directly into his stomach. The blast that let the daylight into St. Martin's stomach enabled U.S. Army Surgeon William Beaumont, in years of experiments, to shed the first light on the mysteries of human digestion...
When Tom was swinging a pick as a sewer laborer during the Depression, the gauze pad so irritated the delicate membrane of his rosette that he had to have an operation. Recovery was slow, and Tom had to go on relief. Up to that time he had not let doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would...
...started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They can't let the downs stop them...