Word: ransoming
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...that he kidnaped Chiang. On Moscow's orders (the kidnaping did not fit the Kremlin's long-range plans for China), Chou reversed himself, glibly negotiated Chiang's release, leaving the Young Marshal high and dry and his army in the Red ranks. Chou's ransom price for Chiang's release was betrothal with the Communists. It was the fatal marriage for the Nationalists...
...Lady for Ransom, by Alfred Duggan. The twilight of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a fine historical novel (TIME...
...Lady for Ransom, by Alfred Duggan. The twilight of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a fine historical novel (TIME...
...Lady for Ransom, by Alfred Duggan. The twilight of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a fine historical novel (TIME...
Married. Louis Shoulders, 55, onetime St. Louis police lieutenant, who arrested the kidnapers of Bobby Greenlease, and is now awaiting trial on a federal perjury indictment charging that he lied about his handling of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom (TIME, Nov. 2, 1953); and June Marie George, 30, his ex-landlady; he for the third time, she for the second; in St. Louis...