Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his wife and three children, Batista now lives quietly in Daytona Beach -next door to 83-year-old automotive pioneer Ransom Eli Olds. Every morning, he is up at 7 for a brisk row in the nine-foot boat he keeps in the Halifax River. He plays tennis at the smart Daytona Beach Bath and Tennis Club, goes to the movies two or three times a week and occasionally speaks at Rotary Club luncheons...
King's Ransom. By some standards Victor Emmanuel seemed to do very well indeed. Canny King Umberto took out ?1,000,000 insurance a short time before he was assassinated in 1900. Victor Emmanuel III acquired not only a throne but lots of money. He collected old coins, as well as new, and wrote about them in numismatic journals. Tidy and penurious, he was described by a friend as "a good husband, a loving father, a conscientious bureaucrat...
...their trains as they head for their new homes. The Communists constantly harass the immigrants, said Bishop Ladyka, and try to bribe them to return to Europe. They tell the immigrants "that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They offer to "produce the 'ransom' to 'rescue' the D.P.s if they will join the ranks of the Reds." Even when the immigrants reach their new homes in Canada, said Bishop Ladyka, the "Communist plea" continues by mailed pamphlets which warn the immigrants that Canada is controlled by "fascists and capitalists," and to return...
After I paid the ransom, I propelled Sedgwick to a rude stool by the fireplace and forced a few drops of Dr. Seagram's elixir through his clenched teeth. He gargled hysterically, hiccoughed once, and whispered plaintively, "Christmas shopping...
...Cervantes commanded a longboat against the Turks at the decisive sea fight of Lepanto (1571) and got his left hand crushed. The Christian commander, Don John of Austria, later gave him a letter of commendation. Carrying the letter, Cervantes was captured by the Turks and held in Algiers for ransom until...