Word: aldrich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...class of American spies who considered themselves more knowledgeable, hard-thinking and highly pedigreed than the politicians they worked for, yet who managed to miss the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international ambitions of al-Qaeda and the existence in their midst of Soviet-paid moles like Aldrich Ames...
...Back in the '70s, the director Robert Aldrich outlined distinctions between New York and L.A. police. In the Big Apple, he said, the cops are basically in it for the money, knowing that bribes and kickbacks will put their kids through college. L.A. cops, Aldrich said, are honest, crusading and sadistic: they get their charge from pulverizing the ones they tab as bad. Ludlow, who has a Patton-size flag outside his home and whom another cop calls "L.A.'s deadliest white boy," fits into this latter category. "We're the police," he tells a greener officer (Chris Evans...
...approached while walking by two men in a car who asked if he wanted to purchase drugs. When the reporting individual declined, the men in the car followed him before eventually leaving. October 107:35 p.m.—Officers responded to a report of an assault at Aldrich Hall. The reporting party stated that they approached a group of individuals to advise them that they would have to leave the classroom in which they were. An individual then pushed another to force the reporting party out of the room. Another individual arrived and tried to reinforce the message...
...reporting party had followed another car into the parking lot and a barrier rose out of the ground, striking the front undercarriage of the car, and lifting it off the ground. Parking services lowered the barrier and released the car.May 16:9:46 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to Aldrich Hall in response to a report of a suspicious package in the hallway. They located a plastic bag that contained a camouflage tee-shirt, a gas mask, and a hand grenade. Upon further inspection, it was found that the grenade was hollowed out and belonged to an individual who had received...
...were able to hold it somewhat level for a while,” varsity three-seat Brian Aldrich said afterwards. “It felt like a good piece. But then every time you looked over the rest of the field was just moving on us. We didn’t know what was happening—it felt strong...