Word: handcuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia tried to handcuff this resolution with an amendment that news should be a propaganda weapon "for eradication of Fascism and Fascist ideology," a handy way of justifying the Kremlin-controlled press. Stooging for Russia, Polish Delegate Grosz, wanted U.S. newspapers condemned as "warmongers." The amendment was beaten 27 to 5, the five being the Russian bloc (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia...
...fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign Minister to attend the Strong Man's inauguration...
When a policeman came into the bar, Otto Wilson was talking to another woman. The policeman came up behind him, looked at his cut hand, clapped a handcuff on his wrist...
...When the repatriates left their camps for Göteborg, 900 Canadians in a Stalag at Lamsdorf near Breslau still wore the chains with which they were shackled soon after Dieppe. One Canadian R.A.F. private said: "When the Nazis started to handcuff us the first time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used...
...escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...