Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want me, well, come and get me," growled Craig. Bentley, though already under arrest, shouted to his pal: "Let him have it, Chris!" Chris Craig emptied his Colt automatic, and one of its .45-cal. slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...
Crystal Ball. In Philadelphia, after calling on a fortune teller named Madame Carr who told him that he was about to sign an important paper, Plainclothesman John Jones walked straight to police headquarters, signed an affidavit for her arrest...
Censorship screened details of his arrest last week, but the fact that some of the 13 men seized with him were students suggested that he may have been organizing the university and high school strikes currently plaguing Pérez Jiménez' government. Even more significant was the presence of military officers among his interrogators at the Model Jail the day after his capture. Whether or not Carnevali had actually been subverting the army, Perez Jiménez' only real bulwark, the government was evidently taking no chances...
...criminals sought first and foremost to undermine the health of Soviet military leaders, to put them out of commission and weaken the country's defenses . . . But their arrest upset their fiendish plans." Among other intended victims, according to Moscow: Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, Minister of War; Marshal Ivan Konev, commander of Soviet army ground forces; Admiral Gordei Levchenko, Deputy Minister of the Navy; and General Sergei Shtemenko, chief of army staff...
Rabbi Klemes had a son and a daughter in Moscow; both are practicing physicians. But it did not need a personal relationship for the announcement of the arrest of the Moscow doctors to make Jewish hearts everywhere miss a beat that morning. In many Jewish minds was the thought: So it has begun-the Soviet pogrom. In the trial of Rudolf Slansky and his ten Jewish Communist comrades last November on charges of "Zionism and bourgeois Jewish nationalism," there had been room for doubt. In their cynical ways the Communists might simply have been making a play for Arab support...