Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped up capital to underwrite the revolution. The explosion of the internal-combustion engine woke up slumbering Detroit. The engine put a nation on wheels, tracked the nation with highways, filled the countryside with flashy billboards, hot-dog stands, gas fumes, and, in a climactic outpouring of weapons...
Opening the Tuesday evening session, John Crows Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review and visiting Summer School professor, discussed the relationship of the works of Matthew Arnold to recent work in criticism. Ransom stressed the error of destroying poetry in attempting to reduce it by analysis into its prose equivalent...
...Ransom Price? The verdict touched off a roar of protest all over the free world. The State Department blasted the trial as "a kangaroo court staged before the klieg lights of propaganda," a "shabby 'conviction'" based on "fabricated charges." In London, the News Chronicle cried: "To make the legitimate gathering of news a crime as the Czechs have done is as severe an indictment of the Communist regimes as there could...
Robert A. Vogeler, recuperating from the same kind of Darkness-at-Noon proceeding, put his finger on the probable Czech motive for the Oatis conviction. "They snatch an American citizen," said Vogeler, "and hold him prisoner until our State Department coughs up ransom . . . We are the greatest country and we continue to crawl." To get Vogeler out of jail, the U.S. went along with the Communists' snatch & ransom plot, forked over several million dollars worth of industrial concessions to the Hungarian government. What ransom do the Czechs want? Among the guesses is that they want the U.S. to shut...
There is every reason to believe that the State Department will not pay ransom. But other than stopping all private travel to Czechoslovakia right after Oatis was arrested, it has not yet gone beyond protests and denunciations to help Oatis. The Czech government still has nine embassy officials in Washington, five staffers at the U.N., and it is still selling goods in the U.S. at the rate of $28,000,000 a year...