Word: dragnet
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...decreed the election of a single, 58-seat chamber. The only candidates who managed to get on the ballots were well-known Duvalier partisans. Only one candidate came out swinging against the regime, and he withdrew for "personal reasons" on election eve. Voting-day squads of police spread a dragnet for anti-Duvalier Haitians, most of whom had prudently gone into hiding. Only a fraction of Haiti's 1,000,000 voters bothered to turn out. Most of those who voted were civil servants...
...flown off to Paris, a prisoner. Carrying his own suitcase, looking crumpled and insignificant in civilian clothes, he stumbled at the foot of the landing steps in Paris, fell heavily on his hands and knees. Charged with leading an armed insurrection, he faced a possible death sentence. A dragnet went out for the rest of the ringleaders, who had disappeared. Ultras in Algiers sheepishly turned up at police stations and handed back 10,000 weapons...
...from all the hearings on entertainment since 1947 no legislation emerged, and that the purpose of the inquiry was to single out and expose individuals in order to deny them employment. Ross said also he intended to prove through Walter's testimony that the HUAC was "engaged in indiscriminate dragnet procedures...
During cross-examination, Ross tried to demonstrate that the Committee had no clearly established definition of "un-American Activities," "national security," or "internal security." He also attempted to show that the calling of Seeger was a "dragnet" proceeding unrelated to previous investigations...
...There is talk of 'foreign devils.' I was told that a common complaint of housewives in queues was that 'the Russians are taking away everything,' or, more simply, that 'the Government is exporting too much.' [There is a] sweeping dragnet out for peasants, truants from their communes, who flock to the cities in hopes of finding a bit of food or more rewarding jobs, or even to commit the supreme crime of selling a few eggs or vegetables on the black market. Children, inculcated by their 'Pioneer' leaders, report at once...