Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choir members, all minors, had gone back to Dresden. Also back in Dresden was Business Manager Pulst, about whom Choir-Leaders Schueck and Niebisch had a sharp suspicion: he was a Soviet agent, they thought, had deliberately failed to get West German bookings for the choir, had engineered the arrest of the two wives. The rest of the choir was flown to Frankfurt, where they will give a thanksgiving concert, train for a foreign tour. Standing in the bright sun at Frankfurt airport one of the girls said: "At last we can sing in freedom, and that...
...Bologna, a Red stronghold, the party could produce no sea of faces or grim proletarian columns. In groups of five to eight, activists toured the city, calling on shops to close and workers to strike. Whenever the celere appeared, the activists, to avoid arrest, would suddenly produce a soccer ball and begin to play. In one day there were at least 500 games going. Major trouble was avoided, but shops remained shut, factories idle...
Found in Perry's Cambridge rooms at the time of his arrest were 40 books, six of which had been taken from University libraries. Police also discovered covers and opening leaves of "Cadenus and Vanesa," a 1726 work of Dean Jonathan Swift, known to have been taken from Houghton Library...
...British National Union of Students, an organization similar to the NSA, suspended its membership until the Second World Student Congress meets next August to protest the arrest of the Yugoslavian delegation to an IUS meeting in Sofia and the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the IUS in February because that country is "Fascist...
...Patrician Rebel. When the duchess heard of Bernardez' arrest, she still had time to flee. Instead, she chose to stay. When she was nine and a convent student, Luisa Maria had upset a plate of bean soup in protest against the quality of convent food. Reprimanded, she upset the inkwell on the mother superior's desk. Last week, still a rebel, the duchess made the rounds of Madrid's foreign embassies and newsmen, hoping that publicity would help her arrested friends...