Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bungalow-protection racket. The Bhamptas were railroad thieves. Their favorite trick, best performed on a crowded train, was to frighten a baby, slide to the floor to comfort it, and meanwhile slit open the baggage of the other passengers. The Kolis impersonated cops: descending on a village, they would arrest the village constable on some phony charge, then strip the village. Other groups became counterfeiters, moonshiners, muggers. Children learned crime at their mother's knee. Some tribes pressed a silver rupee, fastened to a piece of string, into a newborn child's throat, where it would form...
...Singer Johnnie Ray wailed that his arrest at the Boston airport as a common drunk was "all a mistake." His explanation: "I fell asleep at that airport. Pretty soon someone came and woke me up and told me to come with them. I went. I thought they were my managers . . . When I woke up two hours later, I found I wasn't in that plane at all. I was in jail. I was pretty upset...
...Lord's Doorstep. As the bishop's secretary in Kwangtung, Sister Joan Marie was placed under house arrest with Ford when the Reds brought trumped-up charges of espionage against him in December of 1950. Though never tried, he was taken from his home four months later and publicly paraded, beaten and degraded in some of the cities in which he had done mission work since...
...Nairobi. Those who wore hats were asked to take them off because, Kenyatta explained, hats are a symbol of the white man's rule. In an impassioned speech, he pressed one demand : "The whites must give Kenya back to us Africans!" Then, while white Kenyans hollered for his arrest, Mr. Kenyatta quietly tucked his ebony walking stick under his arm, walked home to his nearby bungalow and settled down to a book of essays by Bertrand Russell...
...that 500,000 Orthodox youths march on Batista's headquarters at Columbia military camp near Havana "to see if the soldiers will fire." Shortly after Ochoa's face faded from screens all over Cuba, Military Intelligence agents closed in on him and made history's first arrest for inciting rebellion by television...