Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-aged housewife who came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty clothing. I tell you that's nothing compared to the nameless fear and suspense one suffers from each time the Household policeman knocks on the door...
...should not be left to the discretion of a policeman whether to make an arrest or let the child go. Such power in the hands of a policeman may lead to serious abuses. Suppose a boy steals. His parents manage to make restitution. Or the frantic mother goes to any length to persuade the officer to overlook the offense. Or the case is dealt with by voluntary agencies. That couldn't happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency...
...beat their prisoners, inject them with truth serums, extract their teeth and fingernails," cried Athens' Voice of the Fatherland radio, beamed to turbulent Cyprus. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said one newspaper, is "the accomplice of the most shameful international crime of our age." When a policeman was killed trying to keep order on the island, Athens beamed back its own version: "Agents of the foreign dynasty [Britain] provoked the riots and killed the policeman in order to provoke further rioting...
Wherever 26-year-old Autherine Lucy went on her first day at the University of Alabama last week, a policeman dogged her footsteps. "You get all kinds of assignments," the officer grumbled to a reporter, but there was good reason for this one. Four crosses had already been set on fire on the campus, for Autherine Lucy is a Negro...
...typical day, the commanding general is driven up in his black Buick at exactly 9 a.m.; he glances at the flags fluttering from 15 tall flagpoles at the entrance, and trots briskly up the steps. He flashes a wide, toothy grin of greeting at the military policeman on duty, to the civilian woman who runs the magazine stand, to anyone he encounters in the corridor on his way to his office. His working day had begun almost an hour earlier, when his French aide reported to his breakfast table in his nearby official residence to brief...