Word: ransoming
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...hours after he was taken at gunpoint from a motel room on the California-Nevada state line in the Sierra Nevadas, Frank Sinatra Jr. was back home. Three men had been arrested and charged with his kidnaping, and all but $6,114.24 of a $240,000 ransom payment had been recovered. Besieged by newsmen's requests for details as to how its sleuths had caught up with the kidnapers, the FBI maintained a silence that seemed to betoken deep wisdom as well as becoming modesty...
...that he had a package for the singer. He bent over, set the box down, and stood up waving a revolver at Sinatra and Foss. Then came an amateur touch. Risking life imprisonment, or death in the gas chamber if he should kill the boy, and obviously planning a ransom play that would involve thousands, the kidnaper began by searching Sinatra's wallet; he found only...
They had reason to be. At week's end, barely 72 hours after young Sinatra had been released, the FBI had arrested three men, charged them with the kidnaping, and recovered all but $6,114.24 of the ransom...
...Gondos to open their curtains-and they stand helpless, gaping through the vastness of their picture window into the greater vastness of the city below. "O.K., I can see you now," says their tormentor. Later, Gondo and a squad of detectives board a train, and a brilliantly mounted ransom scene races by with all the blurred, whooshing impact of a head-on collision...
...encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Sorrow), which condemned Nazi racism in 1937. When the Germans organized a roundup of Roman Jews in 1943 and 1944, the Pope made no formal protest, but allowed convents and monasteries to take in refugees, and offered 50 kilograms of gold to ransom the lives of 200 Jewish leaders. In Hungary and Slovakia, both predominantly Catholic countries governed by Catholic Nazi puppets, his papal nuncios had some success in halting the deportation of Jews to Polish death camps...