Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the war in Korea. Like magic, Zhukov turned up beside Molotov at a gathering in Warsaw, and again on the 1952 Moscow party Congress. But his real return to favor dates from Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, and the arrest four months later of arch-Commissar Beria. The same plenary meeting of the Central Committee which denounced Beria elevated Zhukov to full membership on the Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...last year old Revolutionary General Miguel Flores Villar-who in his day saw priests hunted down and convents burned-spotted a fully garbed Sister of Charity bustling through Mexico City and ordered the police to arrest her. They did because they had to, but at the police station Sister Guadalupe Colon was immediately released. The incident was typical of the state's changing attitude toward religion...
Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...
...session was unique because Spring had ordered the students' arrest Tuesday night after he spotted them dropping water bombs out of fraternity house windows along Beacon...
Allergy. In Milwaukee, when police tried to arrest him for being AWOL, Private John D. Lattimore, 24, attacked his captors, later explained to the judge: "Any kind of an officer-Army or police -makes me nervous...