Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve people. By late last week, nearly 3,000 demonstrators, peacefully submitting to arrest, jammed Kerala's jails. But in the end it was not Namboodiripad who gave way but his opposition, which had second thoughts...
...Paris; politicians and lobbyists outnumber hotel guests 3 to 1, and talk about their problems with surprising openness. One Moslem municipal councilor, who won election on the Gaullist right-wing U.N.R. ticket, says: "Do not be fooled by our labels; they are really flags of convenience. The threat of arrest still hangs over us. But we say what we feel...
...King's next challenge to the brother who had saved his throne came with the recent arrest of Mohammed al Jasir, the scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...
...million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence and abandoned sex that we read of every day. I want to devote the rest of my life to this...
...cops. It was a mistake. He returned, found the garage light out, started to pull the garage door down, got slugged. He fell, was kicked as he lay on the ground. Leonard wound up in the hospital in serious condition. It looked very much as though Carbo, even under arrest, still had pals willing to do him a favor...