Word: copping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Buenos Aires. As it passed, police snapped respectfully to attention" [TIME, Dec. 2]. . . . Now that's something I'd like to witness! I've often watched local policemen salute courteously, politely or sympathetically many cars official and otherwise, but I yet have to see a local cop or for that matter anyone in this country, in Latin American countries or any country in the world, who's had any contact with U.S.A. citizens (officials or not), take a respectful attitude towards the U.S. crest, flag or a representative American citizen...
...Take the money," the cop advised after due deliberation. "He means well...
Died. Lewis J. Valentine. 64, New York City's hard-hitting former Police Commissioner (1934-45), who rose from cop-on-the-beat to head the nation's largest city police force, gave New York's slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white slavers, crooked politicos some of the toughest years they had ever known; after long illness; in Brooklyn...
...American Cop (MARCH OF TIME) tackles a serious and very present problem: the booming postwar U.S. crime wave. But with all its cops-&-robbers flavor of shrieking sirens, swinging nightsticks and hard-boiled violence, the film is as much fun as a fast whodunit...
...kept him on the bench for the first 20 minutes of play, Mariaschin took to the floor in the third quarter--and the Crimson began to move. Instead of merely parrying blows with yale's Tony Leavelli, the Stahl five took the play away, went on to cop the lead, and eventually won 39 to 7. Mariaschin's two baskets in the scoring columndin't count for much in the final score, but the 15,000 spectators were unanimous in attributing the win to his morale as a floor leader...