Word: arrestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Arrest in Formosa
There were the usual alarms and excursions. A pro-Lumumba major tried to assassinate Colonel Mobutu, who wrestled the gun from the man's hand. A squad of pro-Mobutu soldiers arrived with a warrant to arrest Patrice Lumumba but were turned back by a Ghanaian officer of the U.N. corps because the warrant was not properly drawn. A big river boat loaded with 400 soldiers pulled up at a Leopoldville dock, and the panicky word went out that they were Lumumba troops from his upriver stronghold of Stanleyville. Truckloads of Mobutu's forces raced to the dock...
...close friend of Chiang Kaishek, but at the same time he is also a leading exponent of Formosa's need for a responsible opposition. Other overseas Chinese took up the cudgels. In Hong Kong the British-owned China Mail said angrily that Lei's arrest proved that "free speech is as dangerous in Formosa as it was shown to be during the Hundred Flowers campaign on the mainland...
...hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England* to tell his story rather than be silenced by the walls of a jail...
...scene is London, and Nick Jenkins is still the sad Seeing-Eye dog for a troupe (if that can be imagined) of comic blind men. Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven...