Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again Khrushchev's motorcade of black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...
...Three plainclothesmen on the Brooklyn Morals Squad were hauled up for the shakedown of a bookie; their arrest touched off a grand jury investigation of the entire squad...
Trucks filled with police and plainclothesmen suddenly roared into the street, drew up at the Assembly entrance. Moving at the double, the police burst through the flimsy barricades and charged the Assemblymen. A tangle of fighting, cursing men rolled on the floor or tumbled over desks, chairs and other writhing bodies. Park Soon Chun went down from a blow to the jaw. One by one, bleeding and still struggling, the sit-down strikers were hauled from the chamber and down the corridors, past jeering, pro-government Assemblymen of the Liberal Party. Eight had to be sent to the hospital...
...score mounts. When the tiger has made his fourth kill, Maigret sets a trap. He invents a suspect, credits him with the crimes, counts on the killer (whose vanity has been demonstrated in his challenge to the police) to protest his guilt by attempting a fresh murder-which 500 plainclothesmen stand ready to prevent. The trap springs, but the tiger escapes, and Maigret is forced to track him through some pretty tortuous back alleys of psychology-the sort of area a camera can easily get lost in. But Director Jean Delannoy knows exactly where he is going, and with...
From the moment he left his desk at the Korea Times in Seoul last June, Managing Editor Choi Byung Woo was plagued with troubles. The amiable, book-loving newsman had hardly started his tour of Southeast Asia when British plainclothesmen nabbed him in Malaya for asking searching questions of a British naval officer at the bar in Singapore's Cockpit Hotel. The embarrassed police quickly established that asking questions was Choi's business; he chuckled and headed for Formosa. Early in September Choi was one of the first newsmen to hit the beaches of beleaguered Quemoy, safely wading...