Word: warrantize
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...knock on the door came shortly after midnight, but Brazilian Journalist Helio Fernandes was not surprised to find the three army officers standing in the hall. "You are under arrest," said the captain in charge. Fernandes asked to see the warrant. The captain's only reply was: "This is the army...
ernandes, who has made a career of offering himself as his country's fastest-moving journalistic target, had been tipped off. He had already called a hasty press conference and told fellow newsmen the army was after him. "There is no arrest warrant," he told them. "The War Minister has no power to arrest me because I am not a military man." He was hauled off to a barracks, anyway, and placed under guard - out of sight, sound and print for six days...
Sheriff Warren Johnson was next on the witness stand. He reiterated the allegations made in the opening arguments of counsel, but he admitted never taking out a warrant. In fact, he declared, he had not taken out a warrant for anyone's arrest during his six years as Sheriff. He hadn't barged into Ware's home, he reported, but had been invited in. Anyway, he only wanted to arrest Ware for his own protection and the protection of society...
...even Goethe with his Faust or Wagner with his Ring of the Nibelungen. Lear cannot achieve total success in performance; nor can Faust. But is this any reason to side with all those who continue to say they shouldn't be tried? With both works, enough is viable to warrant the attempt...
...main argument against the Association, however, was not whether or not there did in fact exist some possible particular community of Interest between African and American Negroes (or, if he prefers, 'Africans' and 'Afro-Americans'). I asked what these were and whether they were so great as to warrant forming a club which excluded members of other groups...