Word: plainclothesmen
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...cars are private vehicles operated by plainclothesmen instructed to guard payroll transfers, banking and large business institutions, in particular...
...arrested, and led quietly out on deck. But then he saw an amazing spectacle: 100 newsmen were circling the ship in rented craft, cameras and notebooks poised. Gerhart Eisler threw himself on the deck and yelled as though he were having lighted cigarettes pushed into his eyes. The plainclothesmen picked him up by arms & legs and lugged him down the gangway, while cameras clicked...
Caught. But as he spoke the U.S. Government was still watching him. It urgently asked Great Britain to hold him for extradition. When the Batory dropped anchor off Southampton a tender bearing a Scotland Yard inspector, a covey of beefy British plainclothesmen, two indignant Polish diplomats and a scattering of U.S. officials chugged out to meet...
...spoke, a couple of baby-faced plainclothesmen boarded the train and went down the aisle of car after car, peering into each compartment. The train started with a lurch. "At last," breathed the blonde girl sitting opposite...
...aisle outside Depper's compartment I nearly bumped into one of the baby-faced plainclothesmen...