Word: apprehending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loosely chronological narrative-a series of signed excerpts contributed by each family member-recounts the Schecters' efforts to apprehend the peculiarities of Soviet society. For Correspondent Schecter, working in Moscow meant learning how to make the most of his mamka (KGB-planted Russian journalists assigned to "assist" foreign newsmen) while cultivating nonofficial sources and picking up dissident tracts at park-bench meetings. The children had to adjust to the strict and dogmatic school system: Second-Grader Kate, for example, was taught that the light bulb and locomotive had been invented by Russians. They also found themselves-and their chewing...
James O. Newpher, special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI, said the FBI is still seeking the arrests of two additional persons in the theft but he said he hopes "we will apprehend the other two within the next 24 hours...
...University Hall have spindly metal bannisters, but a Robinson slide is thrilling, if scary. Widener Library has prepubescent brass rails, but if you slide on these, you will truly be shaking the golden rule: Rumpled professors may scurry to their files, but the officious bookchecker is sure to apprehend you. By all means slide, though, and put this University on its ear, even if you end up on your...
Under the police proposal, the Cambridge police would apprehend alleged law-breakers and then take them to the county rather than the city jail. County law enforcement officers would book the alleged offenders, and they would stay in county jail until arraignment the following day in district court...
...born." Observing victims of fraud and a breakdown in civil justice is bad enough. But the policeman sees "the victims of physical violence. And when he turns to the courts, he discovers that criminal justice has failed [even] more completely." Such frustrations create "a determination to apprehend and punish the offender, one way or another. Conscientious law-enforcement agencies [are] stretched between their concepts of service and their devotion to the judicial system. It's a hell of a choice to have to make...