Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Cambridge youth, picked up by University police yesterday in Widener Library on suspicion of intent to steal a book, was later charged by Cambridge police with the unarmed robbery of a coat and wallet from a Law School student in February...
About Richard E. Pipes, a research fellow at the Center, Guber was more controversial. Speaking of Pipes' book, Formation of the Soviet Union; Communism and Nationalism, Guber said, it is "founded on a large group of sources and literature; however, the interpretation by Professor Pipes of the most important stages of U.S.S.R. history was exposed by Soviet historians to decisive and fair criticism in the press, and even in meetings with the author in Moscow...
...major appeal did not rest on sex, money or gore; it came from the encounter between law and medicine, two intricate, big, imprecise and sometimes deadly disciplines. British Author Sybille Bedford, noted for her brilliant novel The Legacy (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957), has recreated the trial in a fascinating book...
...often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described as crackajack, but it should not drive them to chugalug...
...Anne Boleyn, declared invalid; 2) evidence is that Elizabeth was barren; 3) she had fine red-gold hair, and if she wore a wig, it was for reasons of fashion; 4) her relations with nine successive Popes were stormy, but she showed some signs of restraint. In the Prayer Book, designed for worship in the church of which she was the head, Protestant Elizabeth with her own hand struck out the words:"From the Bishop of Rome and his detestable enormities. Good Lord, deliver...