Word: plainclothesman
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Prior to the agreement, applications for an exit visa were usually refused or simply ignored. Konrad K., 41, a worker in a Silesian concrete factory, applied twelve times in seven years. Three weeks ago, a plainclothesman knocked on his door and informed him that he must leave Poland by the end of the month. To help pay for his Polish exit visa (about $200 for persons over 16), he sold his antique Polish car for $100. "Some Poles were angry with us and shouted that we should have gotten out earlier," said Heinz H., 60, a telegraph operator...
Witnesses for the prosecution said that Sobel had called Joseph Miceli, a plainclothesman with the Cambridge Police, a "fascist...
...hospital and medical records, even found a secret witness-a scared young white man who was in the station house at the time of the beating. As the two were fitting the pieces together, another incident came up. During a rock concert in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, a plainclothesman clubbed and beat a hippie he was trying to place under arrest. Mickie and Teddi went out with their tape recorders, eventually incorporated this incident into their program...
...Rise to the Disturbances"), but hopelessly obscure. Oh so faintly does "Dick Greeman's Bloody Nose" presage the Administration's first attempt to call in the police in the middle of the next chapter. (Greeman, a faculty member, had his scalp split open when he stood between an advancing plainclothesman and the Low Library barricade. Vice-President Truman recalled Greeman's injury as a "bloody nose...
...recovered his voice enough to croak and urge the hippies to avoid overexcitement. He proposed combatting the cops with the Hindu charm word Om. Caught off guard, the cops even warmed up to Ginsberg, who, after all, was trying to cool the hippies. "Look after yourself," said a plainclothesman. "There are some wild people in the park today...