Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cop associates professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
...tackle duties, Troy Sitter, a 207-pounder from Arlington, has shown much promise, but a host of other linesmen are out to cop the posts. Sitter, along with Dave Warden and one or two other Freshmen who fancy themselves tackles, have also been tried out on the wings by Lamar, who seems pleased with the results. John Kristopick, who at 210 is one of the heaviest men on the squad, and was an all-state guard in his high school days, definitely knows his way around a line of scrimmage and is a serious contender for a tackle post. Lamar...
...Warner) builds up a remarkably long and effective delayed entrance for its star, Humphrey Bogart. During the first several reels, the camera-along with the audience-sees the world through the hero's eyes: rolling downhill in a barrel (he is a convict making a break); watching a cop's hand paw dangerously into his hideout in Lauren Bacall's auto (he is a convict getting a break); watching Miss Bacall register lovelight as she looks into the lens (a break cinemaddicts have had before...
...been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send a cop...
...before the echo of London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...