Word: plainclothesman
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...Raphael they were looking for, right enough, but he was not exactly a stranger. The police identified him as Franco Bertucci, a salesman and onetime plainclothesman on Rome's own police force. The rest of the story, as the police told it: Bertucci had once consulted Professor Gramantieri about another miniature (which turned out to be a fake). In the course of the consultation, kindly Professor Gramantieri had hauled out his Raphael from its hiding place in the bookcase. On a return visit during the professor's absence, the police were convinced, Bertucci had known just where...
...week's end, the former plainclothesman was awaiting trial in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail; Professor Gramantieri, in view of all the publicity, was thinking about a safer place for his little Raphael...
...ensuing disturbance, one police squad car had three of its tires deflated and its license plates, windshield wiper and gas tank cap taken. The only other police casualty was a plainclothesman who was punched in the teeth; his assailant escaped into the crowd before he could be apprehended...
...would ever pay for his wife's holiday, his companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers on the Tokyo subway. Negishi acted as lookout while his young friend exercised his skill. Next day, both were arrested by a plainclothesman on Tokyo's pickpocket squad. Cried the culprits in unison: "We have failed." Said the detective to Negishi: "If you have no more brains than to do this sort of thing, better go back to being a mechanic...
Toward the end Burke was spending much of his time grappling with Egyptian bureaucracy. Last week, when he got to Rome, he was able to file an uncensored cable covering the events of his final weeks in Egypt: "One morning early in July a tarbooshed plainclothesman appeared at TIME'S office. I was to report to the Cairo governate. There I was ushered in to see another plainclothesman in what I presumed was the security police office. I asked him who he was and why he had summoned me and he said, 'You have applied...