Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young strikers converged on the fair, tore down the Soviet flag and raised banners bearing such slogans as "Down With This Phony Communism!" and "Russians Get Out!"−as well as appeals for higher wages, for freedom, and for the release of Cardinal Wyszynski (Primate of Poland, under arrest since September 1953). Any Westerner they saw (easily distinguishable by being better dressed) they greeted hopefully. "This is our Revolution," they cried. "Tell the world what we are doing!" As the day advanced, the foreign visitors had much to tell the world...
Consternation spread through the village, and soon afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage...
...listeners, for that giant pulse matches the rhythmical operations of the human body, and the performers are all too willing to specify it. Said an Oakland, Calif, policeman, after watching Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley (TIME, May 14) last week: "If he did that in the street, we'd arrest him." On the other hand, the fans' dances are far from intimate-the wiggling 12-and 13-year-olds (and up) barely touch hands and appear oblivious of one another. Psychologists feel that rock 'n' roll's deepest appeal is to the teeners' need...
...lights in a crowded courthouse at Blois (pop. 26,774) flickered out. The superstitious in the audience considered this manifestation something of an omen. There on trial for murder stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise...
...paper also won unusual tribute from a murderer. The day after his arrest in 1935 for killing two women, Dr. Buck Ruxton scribbled a note that he gave to a friend with strict orders to pass it to News of the World only after his death. Ruxton went to the gallows seven months later, protesting his innocence to the last. The next Sunday the paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail...