Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unkindest Cut. In McCallsburg, Iowa, after being nabbed for driving a stolen car. Charles L. Cox admitted to police that the unforeseen arrest had forced him to cancel his plan to rob a nearby bank...
Three of the 16 have since come back from the prisons to which they were sentenced for terms ranging up to ten years. Last week, ten years after his arrest, there came the first news of a fourth. The Soviet Red Cross officially notified Mme. Okulicki in London that her husband had died "of natural causes" in a Moscow jail. Date of death: Christmas...
...abiding citizen should be caught dead in a long black cape. Seeing this sinister character emerge from a dark side-street, the officer immediately summoned the assistance of two Cambridge youths in order to detain the supposed culprit. The appearance of uncivil inhabitants of the town at an official arrest caused some confusion in the student's mind, and ill-considered words were exchanged on both sides. When the student was found to be without identification, the ensuing heated language eventually led to the imprisonment of an innocent, albeit strange...
...earnestly backing the Europeanization of the Saar. By the force of his devotion to the ideal of European unity, above and beyond the desires of nationalism, Konrad Adenauer had been able to check West Germany's yearning to own the Saar, but he had not been able to arrest the Saar's own case of Germanic nationalism. Under Schneider's lashing, personal attacks, the European status had become dangerously linked with the uncertain fortunes of its chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made...
...against Perón Underground Career. As a leader of an ineffectual anti-Perón plot in 1952, he was jailed for eight months. Suspected of participating in another plot the next year, he successfully defied police by demanding that a general of equal rank be sent to arrest him. Later, kept under surveillance until Perón in a moment of clouded foresight, decided he was harmless...