Word: copping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of the original LIFE story, was Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop who thought that Beal was drunk, not sick, and finally the cold ministrations of the hospital staff. But Beal's own remarkable performance told most of the story: his tautened body and hanging jaw gave an eerie impression of the tempests raging inside his rib cage, and his wildly questing...
Life with Father. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Ourania Karabelas, suing for divorce, complained that her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for kidnaping, with five years added to his term for jail breaking, and was being held for shooting a cop, "had failed to assume the responsibilities of married life...
Special Detail. In Chicago, Patrolman Walter Binder, in a stake-out at a service station, was stuck up by two gunmen who lifted $225 from the till, trussed up the cop, stole his pistol and wristwatch...
...sudden switch of examinations from the usual period in July to February. High-spiritedly, the teen-agers marched off toward the Ministry of Education. Almost any mild measure would presumably have stopped them, but the police-minded government of President Marcos Pérez Jimenez sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...
...turned violent. As nonstrikers tried to drive through the picket lines, the strikers threw themselves on the cars. The thin line of Long Island police, under orders not to carry nightsticks, was repeatedly overwhelmed. Once, as a mob of pickets rushed to an entrance to head off workers, a cop stood aside. "What the hell was I going to do?" he muttered. "I was outnumbered...