Word: arrestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Orderly Solution. With the arrest of 43 young Negroes for trespassing on a privately owned sidewalk in front of a Raleigh five-and-dime, the short-order demonstrations seemed headed toward an orderly solution in the courts. But the resolute young Negroes were prepared to sit it out until a solution was reached-and there was only one reasonable solution. Said the Raleigh News and Observer: "In effect, he [the Negro] was cordially invited to the house but definitely not to the table. And to say the least, this was complicated hospitality. You can't have your chocolate cake...
...jury was out for a total of three hours, found Pierre Jaccoud guilty of "simple homicide" and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment, less the nearly two years he has already been under arrest. French lawyers sneered at the verdict as "a typical Swiss compromise." Lawyer Floriot, arriving in Paris, protested: "If my client was guilty, he should have received a much heavier sentence; if not, he should have been liberated...
...being stripped, handcuffed and tossed into communal cells. Trujillo's courts hauled 40 of them out of jail, quietly tried them and handed them 30-year sentences. Departing from normal practice, U.S. State Department Spokesman Lincoln White volunteered that the U.S. was "concerned" about the effect of the arrest of plotters on "basic humanitarian principles in the Americas." But the U.S. Navy, not keyed in, sent seven ships to Ciudad Trujillo harbor to let the crews have liberty ashore. The imposing sight of the anchored U.S. Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, with its jets ready on the flight deck...
Elected to the Hungarian Parliament in 1939 as a member of the liberal Smallholders Party, Father Varga, immune by reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after...
...correspondent of London Conservative Daily Mail melodramatically reported: "I watched a sickening spectacle. I watched a leading Blantyre policeman do these things to Africans who never hit back: strike them across the stomachs with stout black canes, knee Africans who were pleading for symbolic arrest, strike women . . ." Added the London Daily Telegraph of the watching Europeans: "I heard one remark, 'Funny little monkeys, aren't they...