Word: bails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boasted that he was "the first to come out openly and unabashedly for the policies of Adolf Hitler." Sentenced to prison three months ago for violating North Carolina's blue-sky laws governing sales of securities (TIME, Feb. 2), Führer Pelley was out under $10,700 bail, waiting an appeal...
...Storm-Blast Came. When the hurricane struck a few days later, the men used their shirts and trousers to bail out the mountainous combers breaking over the raft. One wave flipped the raft completely over. Then the men lost everything, including their clothes. Exhausted, when the storm subsided, they were stark naked. When the sun came out again, their only shelter was a tiny piece of fabric ripped off the oar pocket. On the 33rd day the raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that...
...like the panes of a cathedral while he moved "gently forward, swaying to right and left like a loaded hay-wain," towards Arras, which stood at the root of a tree of flame. He flew over a plain stiff with guns, within range of every caliber, too low to bail out; at 2,000 feet "you drain the cannonade of a whole army." Nursing, from a memory of childhood, "the sense of sovereign protection," he was all but persuaded that each of his enemies, caught in some lassitude of the spring twilight or weariness of war, was going to pass...
...month from the Japanese consulate. He lectured, wrote, spoke on the radio, in terms which were gracious and flattering to the Japs. Wiggy Williams' newspaper colleagues greeted each other gleefully with the news. Said a reporter: "All his friends gathered around and tried to get his bail reduced from...
...amateur portrait painter, leads readers on a Cook's tour of the whole valley civilization, from the Williamson mansion to the Indian village of Squawkie Hill. He also has three love affairs: with The Friend's pet priestess, with patrician Eleanor Fitzhugh, and with Catherine O'Bail, whom at long last, despite her Indian blood, he marries in defiance of the Valley gentry...