Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irresistible. In Los Angeles, Raymond Adame, arrested for trying to kidnap Celina Jarmillo, explained to police what overpowered him: "I couldn't get out of her spell . . . she made me a sandwich of potatoes, beans and macaroni . . . she bewitched...
...currently doing quite well for itself behind the scenes of the Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...
...UNSCOP plowed prosily through tons of documents submitted by rival Jewish organizations. (The Arabs boycotted the committee.) Meanwhile, members of the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi attempted to kidnap a Palestine Government liaison officer attached to UNSCOP, but failed. The underground Stern Gang, rejecting a proposed truce during the inquiry, killed four British soldiers, wounded seven others...
Such britches-busting boasts have helped to make little Billy a big nuisance to a great many people. A Broadway wit once snarled: "Nobody would ever kidnap Billy Rose. Who would pay the ransom?" Billy has been cussed up & down the main stem as a cheapskate, a blowhard and a social climber who "truckles to celebrities and yells at waiters." More recently, he has been denounced by some of his detractors as a phony intellectual...
...liked being a reporter, and became a first-rate one-a trained seal who gave the Runyon touch to prize fights and kidnap trials...