Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentine diplomat blew a whistle in a New Delhi nightclub one evening last week. Results: most of the protocol officers in India's foreign office lost their Saturday afternoon holiday, armed policemen were called out to patrol the Imperial Hotel, a bearded Briton was booked for assault and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in the midst of an international incident...
...enraged Azules fans began boiling out of the bleachers, police hastily surrounded Othello Renfroe and escorted him two blocks to a police station, where he was fined 250 pesos ($29) for assault & battery. That night, after Torreón had won the game 5 to 4, the Association of Umpires wired Doctor Eduardo Quijano, president of the Mexican Baseball League, announcing that no further umpiring would take place in the league until Renfroe had been expelled. Next morning, before the league had had time to act on the umpires' demand, government agents picked Renfroe up and put him aboard...
...annual meeting in the Eastern sector of Berlin. Many expected that the Synod would widen the breach between Christian church and Communist state. But Dibelius, after denouncing the "increasingly worsened" conditions, insisted that the church was not attacking any special group, but only "defending itself against anti-Christian assault." It was thus clear that Protestant leaders hoped to maintain their tenuous attitude of "a plague on both your houses" in the East v. West conflict...
Foreclosure. In Sutton, W.Va., Hartzel Friend was held on assault charges for sinking his teeth into the hand of an obstinate debtor, hanging on until the man wrote him a check with his free hand for the $15 debt...
...Continental flavor was supplied by Swiss yodeling, Gypsy music and French acrobatics. But top honors went to shapely Singer Isabel Bigley, a New Yorker who went to London in 1947 as the lead in Oklahoma! and hopes that another year abroad will give her enough experience for a successful assault on Broadway. "But if M-G-M would like to twist my arm," she says, "I'd be happy to go into pictures...