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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Montgomery's Negroes walked back through the night to their homes. "I'll be honest with you," says a policeman who was there. "I was terrified. I owe my life to that nigger preacher, and so do all the other white people who were there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Attack on the Conscience | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...winds whipped the dry snow into waist-high drifts around the little police station at the Austrian border town of Rechnitz. Inside, a policeman huddled close to a well-tended fire. Suddenly there was a knock, and the door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Bridge to Freedom | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...least one Harvard policeman and more than 250 students plan to attend the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival at Hanover, N.H., this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policeman, Students Travel to Carnival | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

...policeman will be part of a joint force, with members recruited from a large number of schools, established at the request of the Dartmouth administration. This is the first time a member of the University police force has traveled to the Carnival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policeman, Students Travel to Carnival | 2/8/1957 | See Source »

...going mad. 'Excuse me, Madam, but you can't dismiss me. I only take notice from Major Kinryce.' Her cold eyes in her haggard face fixed him fearfully. 'I shot him just now with his old service pistol . . . You must go and fetch me a policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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