Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoulders; another stood on the saddle of his speeding motorcycle and drained a bottle. Others spaced beer cans along the street, wove in and out on their cycles in an impromptu slalom race; soon the steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay. One doughty fellow teased his friends with a mop until they charged him with chains...
...stepped into his car and departed. Behind him at the curb Ali Chekkal stood chatting with the director general of the Paris police. Unnoticed, a shabby young Algerian slipped up behind them. He put his hand in his jacket pocket and fired. Ali Chekkal staggered and fell. A retired policeman standing nearby grabbed the assassin by the hair and flung him to the ground before he could shoot again. But a few hours later Ali Chekkal was dead...
...dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local policeman, cut off his hands, gouged out his eyes, then killed him and his five children. Then they rounded up every male over 15 and herded them off down the rocky ravine toward Kasba Mechta...
...British ambassadors told what really happened. One sunny afternoon Group Captain Masterman and Colonel Teberg, out for a picnic in the countryside, were driving along the main highway north of Prague in Masterman's car. At a crossroads near Milovice they were stopped by a military policeman and directed to turn off down a side road that bordered on an airfield. About 500 yds. down the road, Masterman found his progress blocked by an army truck planted in the middle of the road. He stopped. Before he could turn around, another truck drove up close behind him, making...
...Well, Anyhow. In Brisbane, Australia. Salesman James Bernard Donohue was arrested for wearing a uniform and impersonating a policeman while selling advertising for a booklet entitled ''Crime Does...