Word: detained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paolillo said that the cells, which are used to detain offenders if they cannot immediately make bail, are fumigated once a month, and had just been repainted...
...Davis said that before Princess Vaughn's death her husband was only trying to detain her so that the two of them could "talk" about their marriage...
...fund took him to Belgium. Although born in India, Mukherjee, 54, has lived in Britain for 35 years, and is permitted to enter and leave the country freely. As he was departing this time, an immigration official quizzed him closely about his new passport, apparently looking for grounds to detain him as a suspected illegal. To the official's embarrassment, Mukherjee's documents were in order. "I watched his face redden as he stamped my passport," Mukherjee remembers. It was an example of what he calls "lace-curtain discrimination. It's where you discriminate in subtle ways...
...died at Auschwitz and Dachau and Treblinka, will be housed in two large, red brick turn-of-the-century buildings. The catastrophic drama of genocide will thus be installed in the middle of the Washington tourist round, along with the Capitol and the cherry blossoms. The museum will detain tourists as the Ancient Mariner seized the wedding guests to make them listen to an uglier tale than they might want to hear...
Former Union Leader Lech Walesa was in a combative mood last week when three policemen turned up at his apartment in the Polish seaport of Gdansk. The cops wanted to detain him for questioning, but the folk hero of the country's now outlawed Solidarity movement refused to go. His reason: the police could not produce an arrest warrant. Said Walesa: "You should abide by the laws." Momentarily nonplussed, the police retreated, but they returned almost immediately to tell Walesa that they would take him away by force if necessary. Finally, Walesa was whisked to a militia headquarters...