Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indira's party took over the West Bengal government because the Communists, who won a dominant role in the government in the elections, encouraged workers to strike and imprison their employers in their offices. To oust the Reds, Congress threw its support to a defecting coalition minister, who formed a new government. In Haryana, the legislators switched parties with such rapidity that the workings of the government were paralyzed. New Delhi placed the state under direct "President's rule" and ordered new elections to be held after a one-year cooling-off period. Though two religious parties managed...
...people gave you treasure and the soldier yielded up his life. The war for the Union is a most bloody and costly failure. What has been our success? Let the dead at Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answer." Vallandigham was arrested, tried and convicted of disloyalty. The authorities were ready to imprison him when Lincoln intervened and softened the sentence to deportation to the South. With habeas corpus suspended, thousands of other dissenters were arrested...
...fashioned," said the Justice official interviewed, "but I think that intellectual honesty is our best check and balance here [against government eavesdropping]. We must attract and train men of integrity. The courts still have the right to search and seizure. And the FBI doesn't prosecute or imprison people--they still have to go to court. That's another check...
Reed told Judge Andrew A. Caffrey that the judge had no moral right to imprison him for refusing to cooperate with the draft laws. Reed then said that he would not leave the courtroom and started to stage a sitdown...
...most Westerners, the Berlin Wall is a brutal monument to Communism's need to imprison its subjects. Not to Walter Ulbricht. Last week East Germany's Red boss, after studiously ignoring the first four anniversaries of the ugly barrier that divides the city, openly celebrated its fifth birthday with a speech that made one wonder why he had not erected it years before. The Wall, orated Ulbricht, had 1) "saved the peace"; 2) proved the West "impotent"; 3) signified, by its unopposed erection, Allied recognition of the German status quo; 4) established "law and order" in East Germany...