Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Barnes put in one-way streets, not a few Denver citizens insisted on driving the wrong way on them. "Look, sonny," cried an irascible oldtimer who was stopped by a cop, "I've been driving this way on this street for 20 years, and no traffic engineer is going to stop...
...Long Run. Forty years of Japanese occupation left Korea with few people trained in government. Thus, the Rhee administration rests upon 80,000 fulltime, government-paid national police and some 120,000 volunteer provincial police who are paid by the towns and villages where they work, i.e., about one cop to every 100 population. In many parts of Korea, particularly in the country, police rule constitutes the government. Thus, Rhee is cautious about who controls the police organization, prefers to have two or three factions contending with one another. In the same way, he has never publicly nominated his successor...
Kirkland beat Dunster, 40 to 31, last night to cop the House A-League Basketball Championship. Humphrey was high scorer for the Deacons, knocking in 11 points, while teammates Green and Woodman came through with ten each...
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Most U.S. Sunday drivers are familiar with psychological warfare, whether they realize it or not. The psychological warrior supreme is the highway cop who ostentatiously parks his big white car marked POLICE on the brow of a hill, for all drivers to see and worry about. He is no bluff. And he has a tremendous effect on the stream of traffic, and seldom has to get out in hot pursuit...