Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrest Harry Schweitzer? Let's make him Secretary of the Treasury. He could balance the budget...
...court order enjoining Hayden from taking the children out of California. But Hayden had made his move. Quietly, with friends and with some like-minded fellows he had recruited through ads, he had gone about his preparations. Though his ex-wife got a warrant for his arrest two weeks ago, Hayden and his four children had already disappeared. Last week a friend got a letter: Hayden, his kids and his crew were aboard The Wanderer, en route to Tahiti. "It's time to go," wrote Hayden...
...force Iraq into a quick union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. An Iraqi nationalist before all, Premier Kassem had tried to divest his friend by exiling him to the ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite final...
...Laos "must clearly state that it is on the side of the free world.'' Phoui boldly asked the National Assembly to vote itself out of existence. Like many another Asian leader in recent months. Phoui was demanding the right to rule alone for a full year to arrest the nation's political drift and shore up its economy...
When Germany attacked Russia in 1941, nimble Joanovici became a Rumanian again by the simple process of buying back his papers from a Vichy French passport official. Later he declared himself a stateless person. Soon the Nazis were knocking at his door, not to arrest him, but to beg humbly for his help. Germany was short of scrap, and Joanovici could supply...