Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another bandit pulled up in a panel truck. The messengers were quickly herded into the truck and handcuffed inside. One "cop" drove off in the black car. Two men pulled away with their panel truck of prisoners. The last "cop" got into the station wagon, turned on the key and started the engine...
...right there and then ended the efficiency of the caper that would have gone down in history as the nation's greatest jewel robbery. For the hopeless fact was that the robber who was designated as the "wheel man"-the "cop" assigned to drive off with the boodle-the excruciatingly exasperated hood with a huge fortune in his grasp-the sad simpleton upon whom everything depended-couldn't drive a 1951 Ford...
...seemed willing, then, to risk unpopularity. If he really believes that capital punishment is wrong, he should be equally willing now; he should oppose the death penalty no matter who exerts pressure upon him and no matter when the next election comes. And he should oppose it even for cop-killers...
...Crimson yachtsmen have falled to cop a first place so far this season; their record stands at four seconds, three thirds, one fourth, and two fifth places. Remaining meets after this weekend are the New England Team Racing Championship at M.I.T. on Princeton weekend, and the Potomac Frontbite on December seventh and eighth...
There was just one time that I thought he might crack in jail: At breakfast one morning, one of the cops poured hot coffee over a fifteen year old girl who was in jail her seventeenth time for the Movement, and in the moment of her scream, Knight started forward. He checked himself though, gave the cop a you'll-never-touch-me smile, and turned his anger to brushing the coffee from the girl's hair and clothing. He had gone to jail understanding what the struggle demanded, and, strain though it was, that's how he stayed...