Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisoner searches in vain for the reasons for his arrest and torture. The more he thinks, the more suspicious he becomes of his friends. When he comes out, he decides, he won't talk to anyone. He will live alone, speak about nothing. Later, he will even lose the habit of thinking. That is how you keep another nation an ally of the West...
...also asks for student reaction to measures that could decrease crime, such as more police in cars, stricter arrest policy for those caught violating a law on Harvard property, and better lighting throughout the campus...
DeLuca was one of two officers who arrested Lawrence Largey, aged 17, on October 21, 1972, on charges of drunkenness and assault. When Largey was found dead in his cell three hours after his arrest the Largey family sued the city, alleging that he had been brutalized...
...least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs who could and did make arrests, but only on the basis of warrants issued by courts; there was no provision for arrest on "probable cause," and if a sheriff acted as if there were, he was liable to be sued. Almost everybody was entitled to a trial by jury, but the jury, unlike today...
...good. Cardiac-arrest time-the moment when some kids in the audience begin to chant "Fall! Fall! Fall!"-comes when Bale climbs outside the cage and does the whole heart-stopping routine standing on top, with nothing between him and a nasty tumble but an exquisite sense of balance. As the cage dives earthward from the peak of its arc some 45 ft. in the air, he is in danger of being tossed by centrifugal force into the cheap seats. Bale often loses balance on the downswing and has to hang on for dear life...