Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...department, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is just an address-if a rather important one-in the city's Third Precinct. In addition to the White House, the Third includes the State Department, the Executive Office Building and several other bastions of the Federal Government. To judge from the police blotter, it is a pretty dangerous neighborhood: according to latest figures, crime there has jumped 26.2% in a single year. There were almost 400 crimes recorded in that period-62 of them involving at least the threat of bodily harm. In fact, crime in the White House precinct slightly outstripped that...
...routine entry in the Truro police blotter led to the first discovery. Checking out a resident's complaint, Police Chief Harold Berrio found an abandoned Volkswagen parked in a lonely wooded area known locally as a lovers' lane. On the windshield was a handwritten note explaining that the driver had run out of gas and would return. A few days later, the Teletype clattered the story of the missing girls and gave the registration number of their car; it matched the number that Berrio had dutifully recorded. The car belonged to Patricia Walsh, but when Truro police went...
...drive, the public adamantly refuses to report many crimes. According to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, only about one-half of the rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and major larcenies that are committed in the U.S. each year manage to get onto the police blotter...
...wearing a long, extra long, shiny gray suit, white shirt, thin red tie, short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with...
...broadcasting. Hiring more Negroes, Johnson suggested, would be the first step to more penetrating and accurate coverage of the Negro community. And in coverage he included society, sports and civic reportage-"the same things you report from the white community. Don't get it all from the police blotter and the rioters...