Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astoria, Ore., Robert Hjorten and George Sullivan spotted a cop about to tag their cars for over-parking, sprinted across the street to put nickels in the parking meters and thus avoid 50? parking fines, were fined $1 each for jaywalking...
...Goiaz cops seemed to be in any hurry to make an arrest. One police captain who had denounced Gurgel's murder to his chief was even disciplined for insubordination. But at week's end no cop had yet dared to erase from a plaster wall in the square the words someone had dabbed there with a stick dipped in Reporter Gurgel's blood: HERE DIED A JOURNALIST DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS...
...night a small-town cop in South Africa got drunk and took a black woman into the bushes. This, in plain words, is the subject of Alan Paton's second novel, Too Late the Phalarope. However, as readers of his first novel well know. Author Paton does not write in plain words. The prose in Cry, the Beloved Country sounded to some like the language of a very gifted high-school senior who has cried Tom Wolfe once too often. To others, especially to those who were not disturbed to find the rhythms of the King James Version forced...
...there were, of course, the police-the Volkspolizei, or People's Police. Some 90,000 East Germans were recruited into the Blue Police for plain cop duty. Another 130,000 put on the Soviet-style uniforms of the Brown Police to become the German Red army. Equipped with Soviet tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns and other modern weapons, they were organized into combat teams and an army group: some were assigned to a fleet of 31 armed ships, others to flight training in Yak-17s Behind the "Vopos" rose the secret police, some 30,000 organized in NKVD style...
...City Is Dark (Warner) is a cops & robbers movie that captures some of the hard-hitting realism of the early-'30s gangster pictures. It spins a familiar yarn about a reformed ex-con (well played by Hoofer Gene Nelson in a nondancing role) whose past catches up with him when an escaped San Quentin prisoner (Ted De Corsia) tries to force him to join in a bank heist. This time the cop is a hard-eyed, tough-fisted police sergeant (Sterling Hayden...