Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police snapped a crime wave in the freshman dormitories Sunday night with the arrest of five local youths. The group was apprehended shortly after allegedly taking $250 worth of records from the Holworthy room of William E. Wessels...
Last week, together with five of his colleagues. Monarchist Satrústegui was hauled off to Madrid's Puerta del Sol police headquarters to explain himself. Released after two hours' questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...
...feel obliged to single out for criticism a phrase found in your acount of my arrest (CRIMSON, Feb. 10). The phrase in question follows a description of the officer's abusive treatment and uncivil request; it is "Coulter refused..." As you will appreciate, this suggests that my reply was of a kind with the officer's request, and that to his unreasonable demand I returned an equally unreasonable and categorical refusal. The truth is that I protested his treatment and attempted to clarify my rights as a citizen. It was this protest which led to my arrest...
...staked out the troublesome Palace Bar at its midnight closing time, were picking off suspected "drunks" as they emerged. Coulter says he glanced in the entrance and was immediately seized by a policeman, who roughly demanded, "Go back where you came from!" Coulter refused and was promptly put under arrest. Coulter claims that Nathan, who had been watching nearby, stepped over and said, "Officer, you can't arrest that man." The policeman turned without a word and slugged Nathan in the face. Two more patrolmen joined in as he was knocked down, clubbed and kicked. Then police arrested both, charging...
...officer gets scared that the corporal, faced with an objective as tempting as the screen queen, will volunteer for Cliché No. 7, an action that is above and beyond the call of duty. And so he proclaims that the corporal is under Cliché No. 8, house arrest, a condition which, as every collector of cinematic clichés will readily foresee, inevitably leads to No. 9: the scandalous pregnancy of the screen queen, Cliché No. 10 and triumphant conclusion: the corporal's shotgun wedding to the psychologist...