Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flatlands. Akron police also swarmed, commanded pickets to break up the jams around Goodyear's gates, let a nonstriking minority in and out. The jams thickened, police charged the lines. Nineteen-year-old Striker Donald Dixon was shot through the kidney, a woman through the right hand, a policeman in the face. Forty-seven others were wounded, gassed, or sufficiently knocked about to require medical attention. Police then scooted to U. R. W. headquarters, shattered its windows and drove out its occupants with tear-gas bombs...
Appealing their fines to the Superior Court, Henry Sedgwick and Otto Arnold denied having bitten a policeman's finger and stealing his hat and badge in the scuffle...
...nigsberg two months ago Chancellor Hitler thundered that "there will be no more shooting against German racial comrades along the German borders." Since then Czechoslovakians have been afraid that some Czech frontier guard, policeman or soldier would lose his head and kill one of the little nation's 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans who inhabit the frontier strip along the 1,300-mile Czech-German border. One night last week, with the blatant Nazi sub-minority of the Sudeten German Minority indulging in a terroristic and propaganda campaign in preparation for municipal elections to be held at week...
...daybreak one morning last week in a Neuilly garden near Paris, the duel did not begin until lunchtime, because both swordsmen overslept. Arriving first, Bernstein found a policeman trying to forbid the encounter.* Said Bernstein, brushing him by: "You're not going to forbid anyone to do anything." As the challenged party, Bernstein had choice of weapons, chose épées; as winner of the toss, had choice of position, chose the sun at his back...
...firearms the Tribune says: "Another how! has arisen from those who point to Article II of the Bill of Rights forbidding infringement of the right... to bear arms. May we remind such objectors that this constitutional provision was adopted ... When pioneer conditions required that the householder become his own policeman? An insistence on its literal interpretation is shown to be absurd when we reflect...