Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paul M. Zoll, associate in Medicine, said he has treated 27 cases of heart arrest, keeping those hearts going until they were able to function without assistance...
...First Congress, determined to keep alive a newborn nation by profiting from the mistakes of past civilizations, listened respectfully to cautionary historical precedents presented by scholarly James Madison. The 25th Congress, struggling to maintain unity in a divided nation, listened fearfully as John C. Calhoun mobilized the minority to arrest the will of the majority. The 39th Congress, filled with anger as it viewed the ashes of civil war, followed the vengeful leadership of Thaddeus Stevens. In 1955 the 84th Congress represents a nation long weary of crisis and war, panaceas and promises. It is symbolized by a man whose...
Pakistan, the world's seventh most populous nation, is in legal chaos. Governor General Ghulam Mohammed's right to collect taxes, arrest criminals and run the country is in serious question. A month ago Pakistan's Federal Court invalidated 46 of the country's basic laws on the grounds that between 1948 and 1954 the Constituent Assembly had not submitted its laws to the Governor General...
...women and children were immolated on funeral pyres, and the warriors threw themselves on the Mogul swords. To complete his victory (which consolidated the Moslem conquest of Hindustan), the Mogul Emperor Akbar massacred 30,000 Rajput retainers, but failed to arrest the flight of the Rajput's famed armorers. With their families they followed their own Prince Pratap Singh into the forests, and took a solemn oath never to sleep under a roof or on a bed until Chitor was reconquered...
...next, Comrade Borodin, who is the next?" whispers the professor to his assistant at the scientific meeting at Rostov. Before the meeting ends, the professor himself is called out of the hall and arrested by the secret police. A promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories...