Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most obvious lesson of Beria's arrest was probably the most useful: the Communist Party is not a legitimate government of Russia, and illegitimate governments cannot develop orderly succession of authority. Like gang bosses, the top men fight until one wins. Some specialists on Russian doings had recently convinced themselves that Stalin's death released a great democratic trend in the U.S.S.R., which accounted for the "soft" line in Russian foreign policy...
...eliminate any comrades in Spain who had begun to doubt Stalin. In the Stockholm underground in 1940, he methodically turned over to the Gestapo any comrades in hiding who expressed dismay over the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. West Berlin police still hold a yellowed warrant for Ulbricht's arrest for the murder of two policemen...
...Hans Klose . . . has been inconsiderate enough to ask the British for the staggering sum of $14,286 damages for his false arrest [TIME, June 1], and from a hard-pressed nation which spent $5,500,000 to crown its Queen...
...magician to the world's best known illusionist. The movie ends with his death in 1926 at the age of 52 while he was suspended upside down in a strait jacket in a huge tank of water (actually, Houdini died in a hospital of peritonitis). Other highlights: his arrest in Germany on the charge that his act was a fraud and his acquittal after demonstrating his abilities in a courtroom; his escapes from a strait jacket while dangling from a Times Square building, from a packing case lowered into the icy Detroit River, from an "escape-proof" cell...
...general, weekending at a country town, got the word by telephone, flew back to Bogotá, went to a battalion barracks in the heart of the city and waited. Soon the new Minister of War, named by Gómez that morning, arrived to take charge; Rojas quietly arrested him. Then the general sent tanks and troops into the city. In an hour, without a single killing or even much excitement, Rojas seized the government. Gómez, under house arrest, prepared to go into exile in Spain...