Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, D.C. headquarters alone, N.E.A. has a staff of 560 running 31 different departments that delve into every aspect of education. Supported mostly by annual dues (now $5), it has grown far beyond its original role as the champion of the schoolteacher. It has become education's statistician, policeman and lobbyist...
Interior was Kadar's chief policeman during the suppression of the revolt...
...Wild Side. In Miami, 78-year-old Mrs. Mary Bloomfield Bayliss started across a street, wound up in court, was fined $2 for jaywalking, $100 for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, $200 for slugging a policeman...
Price War. In Baltimore, calculating that he had 7? worth of beer left when the barkeep announced closing time, Patrick Duran noisily demanded a refund, refused on principle to accept an offer of 10? in reparations from a policeman who showed up to make peace, responded to another law officer's comment ("For five cents I'll lock you up") by plunking down a nickel, was hauled off to the station...
...Time. In Corfu, N.Y., town fathers were trying to replace a policeman, school-crossing guard, water-system operator, snowplow driver, tree trimmer, refuse collector, meter reader and general maintenance man after Leonard J. Gardner quit his $3,225-a-year town job to go to work in a tool and die works...