Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
...really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing. The townspeople regard the invasion with edgy amusement; student-watching has become a local sport...
...trying to get live Americans back." said President Eisenhower at his press conference last week. "We are not disposed to do anything reckless that would create consequences for them that would be final." The state of the State Department police blotter last week...
Instead, these U.S. soldiers on the Cold War beat-all Army careermen-put on just the kind of on-the-spot performance that made all the police-blotter calculations back home seem worthwhile. Said Army Major George Kemper into the Communist microphones: "They are holding us as political hostages. We are being used as tools." Other Army men shouted at the Communists: "You're kidnapers!" And when, in a quiet moment, the AP's Topping told the Army's Kemper that the U.S. was 1) demanding his men's release but was 2) refusing...
Students selling milk and doughnuts earn from $600 to $900 a year. The earnings for students in the Beer Mug and Banner Agency, the Birthday Cake Agency, the Watson Rink Refreshment Agency, and the Blotter Agency are about the same. The Student Linen Agency and one or two others, are even more rewarding...