Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gomulka for talking too much about a separate "Polish road to socialism." Barely a year later, Tito was the archrenegade of the Communist world. And before long, Gomulka, accused of Titoist tendencies, was stripped of his power as secretary-general of the Polish Communist Party and put under house arrest...
Family Outing. In Kingsport, Tenn., when cops refused to arrest Edgar Spears because, in his own house, he was not a "public drunk," they carried him off after his two sons dragged him to the street...
Orderly Man. In Manhattan, after he nabbed a thief lifting a wallet from a sleeping passenger's pocket and chalked up his 181st arrest, all of which resulted in convictions, Subway Conductor William J. O'Donnell, 47, said: "I don't want anything to happen on my trains...
Next morning Dorothy's father sent word that she was under a doctor's care for a sore throat. Would she return to school? No one seemed to know. But Mrs. Warlick knew who had won. Warned away from the school on penalty of arrest, she announced that she was disgusted because she had so little support and was quitting as secretary-treasurer of the White Citizens' Council. Said she: "I'm ashamed of the white race...
...help sweep the prostitutes off the streets, the Wolfenden Report recommends that maximum penalties be increased to a ?10 fine for a first offense, ?25 the second time around, and a three-month jail sentence on a third arrest. The present ?2 ($5.60) fine even for repeated offenders has prevailed for more than a century, and is regarded by many prostitutes as a license: they keep their receipts to show bobbies that they have been run in recently. Said Probation Official Frank Dawtry: "I don't think increasing the penalty is going to have much effect-a girl will...