Word: plainclothesman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Earlier yesterday two Boston police served a verbal warrant to Bob Roman and Gary Senderoff, owner of the Like Nothing Else store on Charles St. Roman, who works in the store, said that he sold a plainclothesman a copy of the Avatar on Tuesday...
...role of the Police inevitably involved them in some cops and robbery. Campus police will ask trespassers for identification, and if necessary make arrests and support their action in court. Tonis' force also takes responsibility for investigating thefts in the University, and Captain Walsh, the single captain, is a plainclothesman whose special job is inquiring into stolen property...
Cruising down Braybrook Street in a West London middle-class neighborhood in their unmarked car, the three cops pulled up beside a pale-blue Vanguard parked at the curb. Detective Sergeant Christopher T. Head, 30, a plainclothesman, got out to question the four young toughs in the car-possibly wondering what they were doing near Wormwood Scrubs Prison. That might never be known. As neighborhood children gaped, the men in the Vanguard pulled out pistols, shot down Head, then his partner, Temporary Detective Constable David Wombwell, 25, as he rushed to help. Still in the squad car, Constable Geoffrey...
When the Kirov made its debut in Paris in 1961, a Soviet plainclothesman tailed Nureyev wherever he went. And he went everywhere, touring the city with French friends he had met. This brought more scoldings from the Kirov management, but Nureyev persisted. Then, when the company arrived at Le Bourget that June morning to fly to London, Nureyev was informed that he was to go instead to Moscow to dance in the Kremlin, and could rejoin the tour later. "Dance in the Kremlin indeed," scoffs Nureyev in retrospect. "I knew this was a crisis. I was like a bird inside...
...Moscow news executive said sarcastically: "It's payday. They've all gone for their money." After meeting twice to discuss formalities, the Russians and Red Chinese met only three times during the next seven days. Just before one session began, a Western reporter asked a Soviet plainclothesman what time the Peking delegation was expected. The cop shrugged and said: "You never know with them. They are a very disorganized people. We waited for them yesterday, and they never did show...