Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific laboratory of biology for the human laboratory of politics." Sixteen months ago, Politico Guevara, a former cabinet minister, tried to come to power by arms. His revolution began at dawn in Guayaquil, Ecuador's second city (pop. 216,000) and major seaport. It ended with his humiliating arrest a couple of hours later by the army officers he thought would join him. By 4 p.m. the same day, he was in the massive old jail in Quito, Ecuador's capital, 290 miles away. Last July, after Guevara had served a year, President Galo Plaza Lasso got Congress...
...hoopla resulted in more than a dozen arrest by Cambridge police, two expulsions, and abundant probation sentences for the students involved...
...King served for a time as a general in the Civil War, but resigned from the Army because he was an epileptic. His most notable service as Minister to Rome was to help bring about the arrest and extradition of John H. Surratt, of Surrattsville, Md., who conspired with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Surratt had fled to Rome and joined the Papal Zouaves. He was never convicted, but his mother, Mary E. Surratt, was hanged for aiding Booth. King, an editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette and a leader in the movement for an expanded public...
...Wrong Key. Came the dawn. At 8:30 Eileen rose and went for a walk. A detective spotted her, followed her back to the hotel, identified her and found Marilyn. Just then Roberta called from the Dixie Hotel. Soon she and Eckhart found themselves under arrest. Where, cried the law, was the money? A fella with long eyelashes, Roberta informed them, had gone to get it. Before the police could set out on his trail, Cousson showed up with a sad story...
Many loyal Americans like himself Lamont declared, "are now under a kind of house arrest, for no ascertainable crime and with no satisfactory redress . . . because they have asserted their moral and constitutional right of dissent...