Word: flatfeet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murder, likes an occasional sauna bath with his Finnish neighbors, deplores meddlers who interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find in this whole case," and the "final irony" came when a warrant was sworn out that...
...Flatfeet to the Floor. In Philadelphia, Police Commissioner Thomas J. Gibbons said reckless cops cost the city $15,000 in damage to patrol cars over a six-week period, suspended 35 patrolmen for unsafe driving...
...precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet and the idyl ends with a whimper: "Mother. I want Mother...
...delay in spotting Smuggler Howard is mildly excusable (until the last reel, he doesn't know what Howard looks like), his tunnel vision in losing Anita's high-heeled trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders...
Superiority of the "flatfeet" will be reaffirmed starting next week when the Cambridge police force increases the number of "cops on the beat" from...