Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final, unique chapter in Ward's diplomatic education came in November 1948, when the Chinese Communists captured the Manchurian city of Mukden, where he was consul general. For seven months Ward was kept under house arrest, and Washington heard nothing from him. The State Department, determined at that point not to be beastly to the Chinese Reds, made no protest. Even when Ward and four of his aides were jailed on trumped-up charges (of having beaten up a former Chinese employee of the consulate), it was only after the Scripps-Howard newspapers launched a campaign against passive...
Abuse. Editor O'Dowd, whose father John Michael O'Dowd is publisher and owner of the News, kept his news columns as open as his mind. Recent example: the arrest and release last month of Clarence Mitchell, Washington head of the N.A.A.C.P., for entering the white waiting room of the Florence railroad station...
...quick rise to success Merchant McLane has introduced into Europe the most modern and businesslike American methods of food processing and distribution. But to get where he is, McLane has also used such unbusinesslike methods as smuggling, bribery, corrupting public officials, jumping bail and evading arrest...
...usual 60-vote majority. But the vote could not make up for the government's loss of prestige. Said the Tory Daily Telegraph of Eden's humiliation: "It was a storm that will echo long and hard." When, two days later, the government went on to arrest and deport the Greek patriarchal leader on Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, many Britons took it as Eden's desperate attempt to placate critics within his own party, who wanted the government to do something-do anything-bold...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...