Word: ransoming
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...Time for Sergeants. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunken driving, Archie Ransom gave police a handwriting specimen reading, "I love you; I love you," was fined $150 after he told the judge that he harbored no such affections for the cops: "I guess I must have been thinking of my wife; I love her very dearly...
...middle of the 12th century the lot of the Jews was growing hard. Several massacres occurred, sparked, in part, by the old slander that Jews murdered Christian children in their rituals. In 1210 King John threw all the Jews into jail and extorted a ransom for their liberation, and from then on the barons usually treated them as a herd of cattle for milking. Several times, England's Jews were "sold" by the King to British lords, who were then entitled to squeeze as much as they could from them. In 1290 Edward I gave...
...Anschluss in Austria I was approached by a good friend, Dr. August Aichhorn, a close collaborator of Freud's, to make a photographic record of Freud's apartment in order to make it possible to establish a Freud museum as soon as the storm had passed. Heavy ransom was paid to the Nazis for Freud's safe-conduct out of Austria and for the removal of all his belongings, and no time could be lost in starting the assignment...
...inquiry. If this sordid phenomenon were limited solely to Riceville, Iowa, Americans would have small cause for worry; unfortunately, it is not. The real reason Paul was dismissed is that his students were beginning to think for themselves-not just during classtime, but after school as well. JAMES H. RANSOM Stanford, Calif...
When his eight-year-old son (Bobby Clark) is kidnaped, a wealthy manufacturer (Glenn Ford) raises the $500,000 ransom that the crooks require, but before he hands the money over, he has time to consider the facts of the matter. After a fierce inner struggle, his head rules his heart. He takes TV time to tell the criminals his decision: that they will never get a cent from him, and that, moreover, if the child is not turned loose unharmed, he will post the whole half million as a reward for their capture...