Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intense integrity the deeper wound came when he went back to Barcelona on sick leave. To his horror he discovered that the Communists, now firmly in the saddle, considered him a Fascist because he had served in a non-Communist unit. Faced with arrest, he had to sleep in the streets, found himself a criminal in the country he had come to fight for. His disgust exceeding his fear, Orwell crossed the border into France, wrote what is still the best book on the Spanish civil...
...report told of how Paul Rugo '55, who was walking along with his date, was apprehended by a patrolman. He said "You're under arrest...
...quiet about Americans in China, tried discreetly to help get them out. Last week, having failed, State publicly told the score (but refused to say how it got its information). There are about 215 Americans known to be in China. Of them, 42 are in jail, 20 under "house arrest." Of the prisoners, 46 are missionaries and clerics of various faiths, including one Roman Catholic bishop; four are businessmen; three are students; two are teachers; one is an attorney; one is an airline employee. Four of the Americans are detained with their wives. So far, no Americans are known...
...less than 171 acres were not subject to Red reform-at first. As for the churches, "we destroyed . . . this reactionary front of unity" by splitting Catholics and Protestants: the Catholic church was not touched until after the Protestants had been taken care of. Then came Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and trial...
More dangerous to Malan-and to every white man in South Africa was the threat of race war. In the teeming slums of Johannesburg, in crime-infested Durban, the slow wrath of the black man rose against apartheid (segregation). African leaders announced that they would "court arrest until the jails are full." A nationwide civil disobedience campaign by black, brown and half-whites was set for April 6, South Africa's national holiday. The organizers said they would stick to passive resistance, and would start no trouble. But in South Africa's present mood, they were inviting...