Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of police cars came into view. One rode up on the Common grass and the driver bellowed through a loudspeaker, "The curfew is in effect. All persons will leave the Boston Common immediately, or be subject to arrest...
...word cop means many things to many people, and its origin is not certain. One explanation is that it is the abbreviation for Constable of Police; another traces it to the verb copper?to arrest or inform against. * Apparently from "Mr. Charlie," the equivalent of honky or whitey. -In an experimental program pioneered by the Vera Institute of Justice, New York is now sending many Bowery drunks to an infirmary, where they are dried out, counseled, and assisted in finding jobs. In six months, only 150 of the 650 men treated have been arrested again...
...bring out the proposed constitution, which he hopes to submit to a public vote on Sept. 1. Even so, he can hardly expect the document to afford him much more protection than the earlier one gave former Premier Panayotis Kanellopoulos, when Papadopoulos decided to have him arrested. He is still under house arrest...
...what seemed almost a counterpoint to Paul's traditionalism, a Catholic prelate last week strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still...
...Marxist paper, in front of the Harvard Coop, was blocking the sidewalk with his bundle of papers. When he was asked to move them, police say the young man spit at the officer and then ran. Curtis caught Jones, and while struggling with him, Bunting appeared and provoked arrest...