Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defended by idealistic young Lieut. Dewey Martin, who is soon convinced that his client is being framed by a pair of villainous MPs. The court-martial is as farcically one-sided as if it were being run by Judge Lynch himself. When Martin protests, he is placed under barracks arrest. In the last five minutes of the play, this monstrous parody of justice turns out to have been only a bureaucratic bungle: Gregory is cleared, Martin warmly praised, and the hidebound brasshats reveal with twinkling good humor that they had been suspicious of the real villains all along...
...following message (which may or may not have reached Moscow) that Sorge had in his possession the day before his arrest by the Japanese on Oct. 15, 1941: "Japanese carrier air force attacking U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor probably dawn November 6 stop source reliable...
...Prisoner (B & D Film; Columbia). "Try to remember that any confession I may be said to make will be a lie, or the result of human weakness." With these last words to his spiritual principality, the cardinal (Alec Guinness) submits to arrest by the secret police. He is charged with treason and remanded for interrogation to a brilliant political fanatic, a doctor (Jack Hawkins) with whom he had worked in the anti-Nazi resistance during World...
...Communism, by the tales told by the constant stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might bring death to every member of the household...
When Cafe Filho. looking gay and nimble, moved back to his apartment near Copacabana Beach that afternoon, army troops and red-capped riot police surrounded the building, keeping him under what amounted to house arrest...