Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired scenery, oopsy ballet, timid stagecraft, ruthless mugging of the Met may have irritated operagoers more often than not. But the end of the season brought gloom last week to one of its fans: burly, weather-beaten Joseph Bartnik, traffic cop at the corner. A onetime burlesque-house tenor, Patrolman Bartnik likes to drop in on rehearsals, has had many a pass for Met performances...
...Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
...officer throttled his little wife viciously; she pinned his ears to the floor. He came back kicking and swinging; she treated him to a shoulder shrug, a slight wrist twist and a hip flip. Westgate sailed through the air. "Ooooo," said the audience. Detroit's toughest cop was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and twisted tendons. Said his remorseful wife: "I never wanted to learn those tricks. . . . I feel trembly and just awful. . . . I've never hurt him before. It was lack of wall space. I had no perspective in that big hall...
...wild rages, desperate plans, fearsome revenges that seethe behind the impassive, Indianlike features of 14-year-old boys. Last week New Jersey citizens were reminded again. First William and Emmett broke into a garage. An eight-year-old kid who had tagged along with them was spotted by a cop, who fired in the air and captured the kid; William and Emmett ducked through the back streets, until they came to a parked car with the keys in it. They stole it. They had never driven, but William had seen his mother do it, so he climbed behind the wheel...
...packed Brokaw Pool Saturday afternoon, and an inspired group of Tigers toppled Harvard from the undefeated ranks with a 40 to 35 victory. It was a meet full of close finishes, good times, and upsets, but in the end Princeton unexpectedly had the necessary strength in the sprints to cop the final relay in 3:38.6, almost two yards ahead of Harvard and sparkling time for the notoriously slow Nassau pool...