Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies. A policeman was shot to death in a cafe; two more British soldiers were killed...
...what's inside this?" asked an Iranian police inspector, indicating the package. "Oh, it's just some nougat that I wanted to send my brother," said the man casually. "All right," said the policeman, "let's take it to my office, and we'll eat it together." At headquarters the police opened the package. It contained three pounds of heroin wrapped for delivery to a dope pusher in New York City...
...nowhere does the exuberance and vitality of Kirkland come to such a focus as in one individual--superintendent Eddie Chamberlain. Seldom is the office empty when he is on duty. For though Eddie, like all superintendents, must be a policeman, he is a policeman on the side of the students. "Now cut out throwing those snowballs or I'll have to take your name," he shouts from the window in his Irish brogue. But somehow the names never get taken...
...sent well-armed cops. Angered and insulted by student insolence, the police attacked with sabers and (according to some accounts) fired on the shrieking school kids. An army officer arrived in time to see his daughter struck by a cop with the flat of a saber; he shot the policeman on the spot...
...Winter's Tale. In London, Architectural Student Patrick Huggins took aim, hit a passing policeman, was fined ?1 ($2.80) for "wantonly discharging a missile, to wit, a snowball, to the damage or danger of persons in Kensington Court...