Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That suspicious bulge you may have noticed in the hip pocket of your favorite Harvard University policeman isn't his nickel-plated snub-nosed Berretta .25. It's probably his walkie-talkie, one link in a new communications system the University Police Installed Friday...
...pocket radios connect each policeman with the Harvard police office in Grays Hall and permit speedier reporting of disturbances and dispatching of policemen to The Scene of the Crime...
...Want Freedom!" The man who claimed to be gaining strength in the stalemate was Loyalist Leader Imbert, who had driven the rebels out of the city's northern section and was only prevented by U.S. troops from carrying the fight into the downtown rebel pocket. In Imbert's part of Santo Domingo, shops and factories opened. As Imbert himself visited a market, children tugged at his sleeve and people clustered around him. "We want freedom!" an old lady cried. "I think we have it," replied Imbert, embracing her. "We know you killed Trujillo," someone shouted. Imbert beamed...
...glasses fall out of my pocket? I just can't find them in this tall grass. Help me look...
Imbert declared himself ready to talk to Caamaño "any time, any place." He quickly cleared the decks of six high-ranking military men unacceptable to the rebels, unceremoniously giving them each $1,000 pocket money, permitting one phone call to their families, then shipping them off to Puerto Rico aboard a Dominican gunboat. The one man he did not exile was Brigadier General Elías Wessin y Wessin, leader of the loyalists in the early stages of the revolt. At one point, Wessin y Wessin seemed on the verge of resigning, then changed his mind. Imbert refused...