Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lakewood, N. J., Justice Sidney Zweben sentenced a Brooklyn motorist caught passing a school bus to write "I must not pass a school bus in Lakewood" 100 times on the school blackboard...
...Miami, when police arrested E. Manuel Berman for stealing 100 pairs of panties from a lingerie shop, he declared that it was all his wife's fault: "I'm glad I got caught. No telling what she'd have made me do next...
...rebel squad was armed in Albania specially for the Konitsa attack with the Panzerfaust (a German-type bazooka) and Rumanian mines. Three of Dimitri's friends from Lamia tried to run away from the guerrilla band. "They were caught," said Dimitri, "and tied with ropes and the oldtimers came and kicked them to death before us in the light of the moon...
...readers at a supermarket. The New York Times and a dozen other dailies were getting ready. They weren't quite sure where facsimile would lead them, but the press had once badly underestimated radio and television, and it did not intend to be caught napping again...
Dept. of Correction. In Columbus, Ind., Freed Prisoner James Wheeler was put right back in jail when he was caught departing with 16 jail teaspoons...