Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Artie's plane had landed at St. Louis, the airline knew the awful truth: Artie Biggs had cracked the system which had cleared 9,000,000 transcontinental passengers without a stowaway. He was hauled off to a children's shelter, got 50? from a St. Louis cop en route, and shipped home the following day to his widowed mother, who was not amused. "You know," Artie told reporters who met him at La Guardia, "I'll probably get spanked for this...
...Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets. As for the slums-the Republican, Morris, had only recently discovered them. "I," said the ex-Cop O'Dwyer, "lived in them...
...whole place is a disgrace, with them bars around," claims John Connolly, 81 year old retired yard cop. The more be reminisces in his Cambridge home, the more appalled he becomes at the condition of the University today...
...Here's a corker, he said, producing a clipping headed "Cop Clubs and Bombs Rout Harvard Rioters." In response to the mysterious disappearance of the Memorial Hall bell clapper, 2000 students, mostly freshmen, had broken into Radcliffe dormitory and ran through the halls screaming "We want out bell clapper and we want beer...
Pedestrians peered and crowded, babbling curiously. A Capitol cop who was walking his beat on the West Front took one look at the shouting guardsmen and prepared for countermeasures...