Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Bernice Freeman, a grandmother who has four daughters (one older than Boles), entered his Nevada City cell, she greeted George warmly: "What gives, honey?" Answered George sadly: "It doesn't look so good." He said he was innocent of the Hansen murder, and blamed his arrest on "a web of circumstances." Reporter Freeman checked the evidence against him, then put it to George straight: "If you'll tell me positively that you had nothing to do with the Hansen murder, I'll do everything I can to get a good criminal lawyer to help...
...mass Freedomite arrest is the biggest roundup in a single day in British Columbia since 1932, when the Sons staged a similar protest against the school law. At that time, those convicted got 2½-year prison sentences. The punishment did not increase the Sons' respect for the law. But it did succeed in getting the Freedomite children into school: the youngsters were placed in foster homes and sent to classes regularly while their parents were in prison. Attorney General Bonner is apparently planning to use the same stern method to enforce the school law again...
...Washington, D.C., after lending his new De Soto to his friend Thomas Cole, Kyriacos Timotheou took a look under the hood, found that his new engine had been replaced by an old 1950 model, asked police to arrest Cole, who explained: "I put the motor in my car to break it in and was going to give it back...
...alone with his Belgae. The Emperor Claudius himself limps ashore, and in two decisive battles, the short Roman swords cut the Belgae down to serf-size. Fleeing west and hiding out for years, Caradoc is finally betrayed by rival tribesmen, and ends his days under a kind of villa arrest in Rome...
...ancient restrictions of the Torah are the law of the land: no Jew may marry a gentile, no woman may sue for divorce (though the new law provides that if a rabbi decides that a woman has ground for divorce and her husband refuses her one, civil authorities may arrest him and "hold him in gaol until he complies...