Word: apprehends
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Having sidestepped for three years such logical solutions of India's food problem as rationing, the British Raj was failing to apprehend and punish large hoarders. Yet last week, on the 13th anniversary of a declaration of Indian independence still unrealized, the Raj arrested some 200 demonstrators, while Mohandas Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, framer and proclaimer respectively of the declaration, remained in custody...
...stout-hearted crew retaliated with a long blast from their whistle, attracting a nearly police car, which proceeded to apprehend the responsible Cambridge urchins, thus putting an abrupt end to the reign of terror...
...remark . . . that I have no doubt both Mr. Benton and Mr. Calhoun apprehend that I may be a candidate for reelection, for which there is not the slightest foundation My mind has been made up from the time I accepted the Baltimore nomination, and is still so, to serve but one term and not to be a candidate for reelection...
...panes of glass have passed the great divide since the recent snowfall, collapsing before the unerring aim of student snow-heavers. Gore Hall has been the hardest-hit. Its windows have been perforated 20 times, and its gaping panes have stirred the maintenance department into frenzied attempts to apprehend the vandals responsible for the carnage...
...late. When the thief is still in sight, it is well to apprehend him first and worry latter about providing a better lock for the barn door. Your editorial, it would seem, recommends the reverse procedure. Avram Goldstein...