Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travel abroad, he or she must first go through a lengthy procedure, including a government interview, and then post a substantial bond--between $5000 and $10,000--and leave at least one family member behind. This ransom requirement applies to the Jewish community--not to any other minority group...
...March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as policemen entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, trussed up two guards and made off with a king's ransom: three Rembrandts, five paintings by Degas, one Manet and one of only 36 known Vermeers in existence. The Vermeer canvas was hacked from its stretcher, leaving chips of paint on the floor. At an estimated total value of $200 million, it may have been the most lucrative art theft in history...
...Ransom, at 40-some, is getting too old for this. He bosses a gang that poisons tracts of scrub forest with herbicide, so that the land can be planted with fast-growing pine. That's days. Nights, he drinks, bar fights, gambles, cats around, aggravates the local cops. In between he cruises the Mississippi back roads in an old pickup, drinking beer from a big cooler...
...Caldwell, earned high praise for a couple of books of short stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, and a novel, Dirty Work. The new novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
...major industrialized democracies. If the leaders there oblige him with any money at all, they should make clear they are underwriting not just the future of reform inside the U.S.S.R. but the right of the Balts to leave without being mugged on their way out the door. Call it ransom -- but it would be worth...