Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just before midnight on 5th-6th December the police departed, after obtaining ... signatures to the effect that ... we had been courteously treated throughout . . . Guards were left in the house and all consular personnel placed under house arrest...
Even when a child escapes the worst ravages of polio, he is sometimes left with one leg shorter than the other. Surgeons have long sought some sure method for evening up such legs. The most popular practice has been to arrest growth of the normal leg with staples (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949) until the shortened one has a chance to catch up. This method has been highly successful, but many parents will not permit it ("My child already has one bad leg; for heaven's sake, don't tamper with his good...
...Charge No. 1, that Seagrave had given aid and comfort to the State's enemies by having tea with a Kachin rebel leader, allowing the rebels to play football on hospital grounds-not guilty; charge No. 2, that he had written a letter to facilitate the rebels' arrest of a government commissioner-guilty; charge No. 3, that he had given medical help to rebels-guilty. Said the judge: "We must take a serious view of the gravity of the offense . . . While the country was in a sea of troubles, the accused . . . acted in a manner prejudicial...
Then There Were 1,200. After Franco's victory, Gonzalez had fled to Russia. First he was made a Soviet army general, but soon he was under arrest. He was put to digging the Moscow subway, later was shuttled from slave camp to slave camp. He told the Paris court: "Six thousand Spanish comrades came with me to Russia. When I escaped in 1948, only 1,200 were left. The others perished...
...accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass the U.S., its allies or neutral countries." Furthermore, warned Colonel Thompson, any violation of these rules might bring "disciplinary action" and in "extreme cases . . . arrest [for] deportation or court-martial...