Word: plainclothesman
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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...
...Swissair Flight 227 to Zurich taxied onto the runway at Munich last week, it was followed closely by a black police limousine. Not until the Convair disappeared into the night did the plainclothesman inside the car return to headquarters to report that Georges Bidault, 63, former Premier of France and now self-styled operational chief of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, had left West Germany. For the first time since Bidault was traced to his hideaway in a rural villa last month, Bavaria's Minister of Interior Heinrich Junker breathed easily. Sighed he: "A heavy cross...
...property dispute, and the killer went free owing to his political connections. At 17, while South China was still shakily controlled by Chiang Kaishek, Chan was a student at a police training school in Canton. He spoke openly against the Nationalist regime and was overheard by a plainclothesman who warned him that such talk would get him into trouble. To Chan's surprise, the plainclothesman made him a sort of protege-a riddle that was solved six months later when the Red army captured Canton and the cop was revealed as an underground Communist...