Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marlowe managed, in a short life, to write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...money and asked: "What did it cost you to get it?" "Nothing," said Dinneen. "Why?" The ex-suspect then told how he and his companion had been forced to pay $1,000 each to the Boston politician who had pushed the resolution to pay the suspects for their false arrest. Dinneen's story helped put the politician in jail...
Preventive War. In Los Angeles, Roy Campbell, 28, warily approached Brad's Cafe, which he had been caught looting four times before, noted another burglar at work, called police and pleaded: "Get out here quick and arrest this guy, or I know who you'll pick up tomorrow...
...fact, Williams went on to attempt to make his crime more profitable by selling the books he had stolen back to their rightful owner, Widener Library. But this time the University Police, armed with specific evidence, made a quick arrest...
...trading concerns were in great part responsible for Britain's early recognition of the Peking regime), officials are circumspect about cracking down. Communists openly circulate their publications and run their businesses (the tallest building in Hong Kong, by 20 ft., is a Communist bank). Nevertheless, the police arrest and arraign and deport suspected Red troublemakers before a lawyer can say habeas corpus. The popular view among official and unofficial Hong Kong is that the Communists are strong but not strong enough to kick up the kind of violence they precipitated last spring in Singapore. They may be able...