Word: kidnapping
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Trailing Winthrop until the final two games of the season, Dunster, led by quarterback Gordy Wade, managed to pull the title out with a 6 to 0 victory. Rumors that the Puritans were going to kidnap Wade had been circulating for several days before the game, but he was on the field to direct the team...
...only trouble with the idea was that the Socialists do not hesitate to kidnap Speakers to keep them from performing their duties. Kishi took the precaution of secluding both the Speaker and his deputy in another part of the Diet building. When the Socialists discovered that their intended victims had disappeared from their offices, they stationed guards at each chamber door to keep them out. For good measure, they disconnected the electric bell that the Speaker rings to call a plenary session of the house to order. That, they thought, should do the trick: no Speaker, no bell, no session...
...national holiday was declared to celebrate the adventurous King's escape from what he charged was an attempt to kidnap or kill him in a flight over Syria Monday. Hussein, who celebrates his 24th birthday Friday, emerged as a daring Moslem hero for defying the Syrian MIG fighters and making a successful getaway...
Some officials suggested President Nasser's United Arab Republic--of which Syria is a province--attempted to kidnap the pro-Western King and force him to abdicate in favor of a regime friendly to the U.A.R...
...amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant no offense...