Word: seizinger
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Within minutes of Camacho's arrest the police began seizing anyone considered suspicious within a half-mile radius of Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, where the illegal Communist Party had called a demonstration to demand amnesty for the rest of Spain's estimated 2000 political prisoners. The demonstration never started.
For months, left and center in Portugal had been warily eying one another, waiting for some kind of decisive showdown. Last week the long-awaited confrontation took place, when far-leftist air-force units - primarily paratroopers - attempted to take control by seizing military bases. In a remarkable show of strength...
The only real laugh in the entire first act comes from an old comic saw--a mother walking in on a stranger in bed with her daughter--which the weary audience, finally seizing upon something it can recognize, greets with a feeling very much akin to relief.
Antiquated Dowry. Most observers agree that these matters are of no great interest to the majority of India's 600 million people, who are more concerned about the fact that the government has completely halted inflation (down from 31% in September 1974) and that India's three-year...
Main Danger. Trouble also broke out in another colonial quarter-the tiny island of Timor (pop. 650,000), situated in the midst of the Indonesian archipelago. Last week one of the island's fledgling independence parties, using ancient Mausers, Sten guns and Timorese cutlasses, staged a bizarre coup, seizing...