Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vegetarian hermit takes him in, tries to teach him the good life. But he is obsessed by thoughts of the factory; he leaves the hermit and goes back to town. A strike is on; the police break up a labor meeting. He sees red, tries to kill a policeman. But it works the other...
Cautiously the British District Magistrate, supported by armed native police, advanced to reason with the sword & arrow men. Twang! went an arrow, killed a policeman. Opening fire the police killed three tribesmen, wounded four, arrested 16, drove the rest out of town...
...droll little mite is the leucocyte, scooting here & there, sending out inquisitive pseudopodia (prolongations) as does the amoeba. Policeman of the blood stream, it scavenges waste, destroys certain bacteria, ignoring some and gobbling others with gusto. Pus is compounded of dead bacteria, dead leucocytes. It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between. Massage, exercise, eating proteins increase it; fasting lowers it. In such infections as pneumonia and appendicitis the white cells rush to the defense of the infected tissue, are replaced by peculiar polymorphonuclear-neutrophile cells, called "band-form" from...
This is the main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence...
Promptly easy-going Trophim Morosov was expelled from the Communist Party, banished from Sverdlovsk Province. Not long after, a number of Kulak boys including Pavel's cousin met Pavel in the village street. They left him beaten, severely discolored. The village policeman refused to act until Pavel brought documentary proof of the assault and the nature of his injuries. Sticks & stones might break the bones of Pavel but they could not change the stalwart Communist principles of Pavel and little Fedor. They went on with the good work of peaching on Kulaks...