Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began chasing them back down the block. Other whites streamed behind. A one-armed man, his dimpled stump below his shirtsleeve, swung wildly at one Negro. Another Negro (a onetime U.S. marine) decided not to run, ambled with terrifying dignity through a gauntlet of blows, kicks and curses. A cop stood on a car bumper to get a better view. Other cops moved toward the fighting. Faubus Henchman James Karam cried angrily, "The nigger started it!" A huge man came up behind Karam and said: "Get five or six boys, and get them over there where the nigger kids came...
Davies worked his way through law school at Washington's Georgetown University, the first year by working the graveyard shift as a cop on the U.S. Capitol police force. Says he: "The chief had a motley aggregation. One fellow had one leg and I was only five foot one. The chief didn't like that very well. I had a perfect record though-didn't make an arrest...
...Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy cleaning (a cleaning woman comes in twice a week), will not climb ladders to wash the outside of windows (an off-duty fireman or cop does it for 50? a window) ; an upstairs maid does not dust downstairs; a downstairs maid will not clean upstairs...
Sergeant Werner Stephan, 40, was one cop whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered...
...play street, and in summer the white lines for paddle tennis and shuffleboard slid out over the baking asphalt to hold in the aimless kids. An instructor-supervisor sent up by the Police Athletic League divided his time as the situation demanded -part coach and part friendly cop...