Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-eight months after the arrest of Traitor Klaus Fuchs (now serving 14 years in jail for transmitting atomic secrets to Russia), the slow-moving British Civil Service had got around to advertising the vacancy and seeking a successor...
...three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
...having "on divers dates and at divers places, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state, communicated to another person, to wit, Pavel Kuznetsov, information . . . useful to an enemy." Marshall denied everything, and went to jail to await his trial. The Russian was safe from arrest, under diplomatic immunity. Scotland Yard would not say whether Marshall had given away any important secrets; handling code as he did, he was in a position to. He was the fourth Briton to be branded as a spy since World...
Bolshevik officials were not amused by his exuberance during his student days at the University of Leningrad. In 1921, when he was 15, they gave him two months of solitary confinement for leading demonstrations against the arrest of university professors. Despite such delays (he was jailed for a few days each year, "usually around Easter time," as a reminder), he graduated as a "Learned Economist" in 1925; soon after he got permission to leave the country, to recuperate from an operation on his jaw. He never returned...
Unlike cortisone, phenylbutazone is not a hormone, and it does not seem to arrest the disease process in arthritis. But it has one huge advantage over ACTH and cortisone: its benefits are not limited to the 10% of arthritis sufferers who have the rheumatoid form of the disease. Instead, it seems to work equally well in the far commoner osteoarthritis (also called degenerative arthritis), which usually comes with old age, and in the crippling arthritis of the spine...