Word: arraigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concerns were in great part responsible for Britain's early recognition of the Peking regime), officials are circumspect about cracking down. Communists openly circulate their publications and run their businesses (the tallest building in Hong Kong, by 20 ft., is a Communist bank). Nevertheless, the police arrest and arraign and deport suspected Red troublemakers before a lawyer can say habeas corpus. The popular view among official and unofficial Hong Kong is that the Communists are strong but not strong enough to kick up the kind of violence they precipitated last spring in Singapore. They may be able to terrorize...
...fines on smaller, less prosperous newspapers, announced that it would accept donations to pay possible future penalties. As the freedom fund grew, El Espectador continued its opposition, published a cable from former President Eduardo Santos that said tersely, "The fines with which you were honored serve once again to arraign the Office of Information and Propaganda, with its scandalous doings, before the incorruptible tribunal of public opinion...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, amid the marble columns and bronze grillwork of a onetime bank, the 108 members of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party gathered to arraign one of their distinguished members on charges of heresy. Tito himself was in charge. The man in the dock: Comrade Djilas...