Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tukhachevsky's armies during the Civil War, rose to be chief of staff of the Red army, a candidate member of the Central Committee and, after Tukhachevsky's arrest, vice commissar of defense. One of Stalin's drinking companions, he too disappeared without trace...
Neurosis, to Freud, results from unsuccessful attempt by the personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...
...Gallant Name. In a single year Cadet Foucauld spent 21 days in simple arrest, 45 days in disciplinary arrest; he graduated 87th in a class of 87. He was cashiered from his regiment for taking his mistress Mimi along with him to Algeria. But later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities...
...Attorney investigating racketeering in New York industry as "a black effort to intimidate witnesses." Governor Harriman decried the attempt to limit "freedom of speech," and Mayor Wagner called it "shame." The Operating Engineers Union agreed and added another thousand dollars to the growing reward for information leading to the arrest of the unknown assailant...
...attack upon Riesel is more than an isolated incident. It is one of the few noticeable signs of the attempt of gangsters to gain, and in some cases, to enlarge a foothold in the American labor movement. Arrest of the attacker, as a result, would do little toward solving the basic problem. What is required is a thorough and determined attempt to get the racketeers out of the unions--an attempt which must be supported by the AFL-CIO, federal, State and local authorities, by business management, and by continued pressure from the press and public. As Riesel urged from...