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Word: cops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Score for More | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Little Rock's Police Chief Eugene Smith [Aug. 24] deserves a better description than "tough cop," and my hat is off to him and the Little Rock city fathers and citizenry who gave him support in fighting the powerful pressures of a rabid tyrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rookie Cop Ernie Brenner (James Broderick) makes an unsettling discovery: sometimes a lawman has to stand up and fight back against the guys who are supposed to be on his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding Birrell for a supposed $150,000 reward-a bounty that would make any Brazilian cop drool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Improbable David | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Amateur Standing. In Sydney, Australia, fined $67 for punching and biting a cop, resisting arrest and using indecent language, George B. Lake admitted, "My hobby is bashing policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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