Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money or because his vaulting ego demanded it, he gave a private concert in Istanbul . . . (he has a melodious baritone voice). The concert drew a "gate" of more than 1,000 Turkish lira [about $350] . . . Bazna was seized again, the box-office receipts impounded, and he is currently under arrest . . . He is 51 years of age and the father of six children...
...insisted one honest Shanghai druggist. "I don't care how long you investigate. You can shoot me if you like, but I am not going to confess." It did him no good. The "masses present," said Shanghai's Communist Liberation Daily, merely became angry; they demanded his arrest anyway. "Thus was one more stubborn tiger sniffed out and exterminated...
...named Otto Ernst Remer. On that day, believing that their plot to kill Hitler had succeeded,* the mutineers occupied the War Ministry in Berlin and flashed the code word Walkure to all Wehrmacht units. On its receipt, commanders throughout Germany were to break open sealed orders directing them to arrest Nazi and SS officials and occupy their headquarters. Germany would at last throw off Naziism...
Although there had been no reward for Schuster's identification of Sutton, several were offered for bringing Schuster's killer to justice. The New York Journal-American offered $10,000 to anyone who gives its city editor-not the police-information which "solely" would lead to the arrest and conviction of Schuster's killer. The Brooklyn Eagle and television station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, put up $1,000 each; New York City offered...
...After voluble discussions of her plight, they decided to move her to another house. Her new hosts were dismayingly hospitable. They gave parties and introduced the fugitive to their guests. Finally the underground supplied the information Evelyn needed: the Seguridad thought that she had information to spill, and would arrest her soon. After another long discussion, it was decided that she should seek asylum in the Chilean embassy...