Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixture of rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman's caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined for Gamal Abdel Nasser one fact: the U.S. arrival in the Middle East was a big new event that outweighs Moscow's words...
...socio-individual reformers, I see no antagonism between the two. The strong arm needs a big heart. It is only when one is greatly out of proportion to the other that hateful mastery or loveless nonrestraint occurs. Ministers and social workers in New York should warmly appreciate a policeman like Kennedy...
...Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
...gone; "headbeaters" (cops) were on watch everywhere. And behind the men and women in the deep blue uniforms stood the toughest cop of all, keenly aware that the responsibility for keeping the peace was his, positive that his approach to juvenile delinquency was the proper one for a policeman-especially since the other approaches had not solved the problem. For New York's fisty finest, Commissioner Stephen Patrick Kennedy had a last basic police order: "To the extent that we perform our proper function, to that extent will the city be a better place to live...
...Muscovites turned up before the ten-story U.S. embassy building. This time, however, the "rioters" contented themselves with waving placards and gentle shouts of "fascists" and "dogs." When one youth climbed aboard a passing truck and began to distribute its cargo of bricks among the demonstrators, a policeman intervened, insisted that every brick be returned. The Moscow papers, after all, had made no mention of any broken windows in New York...