Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose pale beauty is best set off by fever, and whose malfunctioning organs-kidneys, in her case-take on a presence of their own in the house, like an old aunt's false teeth or an off-duty cop's revolver...
...Cops and newsmen often get along like cops and robbers. But there are times when the police eagerly oblige a journalist's least request. Last week was such a time. With the bitter triumph that only a cop can feel, lawmen in New York and Chicago captured two of the three men suspected of having killed two New York detectives during a stickup at a Brooklyn store. And when news photographers asked for pictures of the cop killers, police in both cities were only too happy to assist, even though it took some doing...
...such swashbuckling company, Stan Musial seems pleasantly out of place-living proof that nice guys do not necessarily finish last. Nobody has ever seen him sulk or throw a tantrum. Unlike Ruth, he has never punched a cop. Unlike Cobb, he has never attacked a crippled heckler in the stands. Unlike Wagner, he has never stuffed a ball into a base runner's teeth. He is, says ex-Teammate Joe Garagiola, a "saint with money." Only once, in 1959, has he openly disputed an umpire's call. The ump's reaction was hilarious-he gaped at Musial...
...Boosts. Inevitably, the manufactured crime wave engulfed the police department. Both the News-Call Bulletin and the Chronicle blasted departmental indifference ("These citizens want action," shrilled the Chronicle, "not explanations"). The Examiner printed a singularly unjust cartoon of a mugger escaping under the very nose of a motorcycle cop-who was too busy writing a parking ticket to notice. And all three papers printed statistics to prove that since Jan. 1 crime in San Francisco was up 13% over last year...
...Cambridge police arrested a -year-old boy last evening, who just like fighting with the police," according to a police department spokesman. An observer in front of where the battle occurred "he popped a cop in the nose and quickly popped in a paddy-wagon ." An estimated 125 observed...