Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Instruction. The cops found the house unrobbed and untouched, and no sure clue as to how the housebreaker had come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...
...week's end Policeman Hahlbohm was still at his accustomed post, gracefully accepting the bouquets, bottles of brandy and cheers proffered him by passing motorists. As for Franz Josef Strauss, he was still exercising the informal privilege of using the chancellery alley-but only, noted Bonn police headquarters, "after the proper signal from the policeman on duty...
...outside, burst into the guardroom, shot three more policemen, then tossed homemade bombs into the depot's gas tanks. A few minutes later, the central police switchboard came alive with emergency calls from all over Paris. At Vincennes, a group of Algerians, attacking a munitions factory, killed one policeman and wounded another...
...riots only increased. Mexico City's Teachers College and Polytechnic Institute were caught up in the juvenile madness. On the campuses, students of law, medicine, history, philosophy stood guard over 300 stolen buses, breaking windows, looting cashboxes. Not a policeman showed his badge. Mexico's college campuses are sanctuaries, closed to police...
Again the plot concerns his sexual and soulful involvements with Justine, a feline Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions" and turns to the humdrum world "the sort of smile which might have hardened...