Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...
Arthur Duffey was not "a minor but revered West Coast cop dodger" (TIME, Jan. 29), but one of our greatest sprint champions and a highly respected amateur athlete...
...escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police car and "took off like a P-38," while a startled cop banged away with his revolver...
...minor but revered West Coast cop dodger...
...Dumb Cop. In Portland, Ore., police put out a fire under a parked automobile, considerably annoying George Harper, its owner, who complained that he always left the pilot light burning in his Stanley Steamer...