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Word: constabular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: Ruling the Conquered | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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