Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time it issued an order for his arrest he was hiding in a haystack. Three months later, a second coup succeeded when the Bolsheviks stormed the Czar's Winter Palace, then the seat of the provisional government, and forced Kerensky's ministers to resign at gunpoint...
...munity's need for defense." But perennially angry Methodist Dr. Donald Soper called them "miserable and dreadfully unchristian." The Daily Herald pointed out that the train robbers were not armed, saw the sentences threatening Britain's "great technical and ethical difference between crimes at gunpoint and crimes without guns." Since even murderers often serve an average of only 15 years, the Daily Mirror asked: "Does this mean that stealing bank notes is regarded as more wicked than murdering someone...
Testifying in a Los Angeles federal court at the trial of three men charged with kidnaping him last Dec. 8, young Sinatra said he had been taken from his Lake Tahoe motel room "at gunpoint" but had then stretched out quietly- without being bound or gagged-in the back seat of the kidnapers' car. Later, he continued, when the car approached a roadblock full of lawmen, he suggested to his kidnapers that they might fool the cops by telling them that "we've been to a party and I've had too much to drink...
...intervened, Karume stormed into the hotel lounge and exploded. "Why are you interfering in our internal affairs?" he raged. "Why, why, why? Why did you evacuate your people without informing us? Why will you not recognize us?" He ordered Picard arrested, and armed thugs marched the diplomat off at gunpoint. Next day, Picard and the journalists were ordered off the island, and rigid censorship was imposed on the reporters who remained...
...said Frank Sinatra Sr., "a fantastic job. The rapidity of the FBI in this case was just incredible." The FBI certainly did nothing to discredit this notion, and the facts seemed to bear out the idea. Only five days and a few hours after he was taken at gunpoint from a motel room on the California-Nevada state line in the Sierra Nevadas, Frank Sinatra Jr. was back home. Three men had been arrested and charged with his kidnaping, and all but $6,114.24 of a $240,000 ransom payment had been recovered. Besieged by newsmen's requests...