Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General offensive on all fronts," Viet Minh Military Order No. 1 proclaimed, and Ho's men in black, emerging in cohesion from jungle lairs, received the surrender of many Japanese and their arms. A French commissioner, parachuting down to reclaim the colony, found himself stripped seminude, and under arrest. But Ho's victory was not to pass unchallenged...
...court acquitted Forrester of charges of destroying property and possession of a dangerous weapon. The Cambridge police, who made the arrest, had earlier requested dismissal of a charge of drunkenness...
...Tempo, looking into his record, discovered that Moscatelli had served only five years in jail, after which he was kept under a form of "house arrest" that apparently permitted him considerable freedom. Why? II Tempo supplied the answer by publishing a facsimile of a groveling letter written by Moscatelli to the Fascist authorities in Piedmont: "I have done much wrong to the fatherland and to the Fascist regime. Today I am glad and proud to be able to declare that I, with a spontaneity beyond any suspicion and an impulse springing from soul-searching sincerity, am determined to reject those...
Mirabal's arrest was preceded by a general roundup of nine Communist leaders in Puerto Rico and one Puerto Rican Red in New York. Among those arrested was New York-educated Mrs. Jane Speed de Andreu, formerly of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. de Andreu, a descendant of George Washington's personal physician, Dr. James Craik, is a well-seasoned veteran of the Communist cause. Once jailed in Birmingham for almost inciting a race riot, she is chiefly remembered for tossing an inkpot at the Italian vice consul in 1935 (on the grounds that he was a Fascist). Her husband...
...scant hundred years since Pasteur developed the germ theory of disease, medical scientists have concentrated on helping the patient by attacking the germs, first with preventive vaccines, latterly with antibiotics that arrest or alter the course of full-blown disease. Last week, before a packed audience at the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. René Jules Dubos, most imaginative of Pasteur's scientific heirs, suggested a radically new approach: work not on the microbes but on the patient, so that the microbe-invaders will never have a chance to cause disease...