Word: ransoming
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...letters in your Jan. 21 issue of Lieut. Lerch and Mr. Ball [who angrily commented on the U.S. paying $120,000 ransom to Hungary for the release of four U.S. flyers] were very much to the point. Although only an ex-Hungarian, I felt very much ashamed for such a gangsterlike extortion by my former country, and now these two letters make me act. I am sure the only proper thing for anybody who is a Hungarian, or ever has been one, is to find the money to cover the amount of this brazen blackmail, and to refund...
...Colt revolvers, Mauser automatics and bandoleers. Their leader, a slim, handsome man whose badge of office appeared to be a pair of brown leather gloves, made a short speech. Money, said he. Stanton was ordered to send his lifeboat back to the Wing Sang, to pick up $10.000 in ransom, and a passenger or two as hostages...
...wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short speeches...
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...starting Lineup has Bob Ransom at number one, Captain Gerry Iannelli at number two, and Lou LeFevre at three...