Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While cables passed back and forth, fresh violence boiled up. In one town masked terrorists disarmed, bound and gagged five constables; in another a gunman shot and critically wounded a British mining engineer. In still another a Greek Cypriot policeman fell dead from an assassin's bullet. In the week's worst incident, as reported by one newsman, chivalry caused a British retreat. As British troops approached a village near the Baths of Aphrodite, they were met by a solid phalanx of island women, Aphrodite's daughters shielding Ares' stone-hurling sons. Thus protected...
While a lone College freshman was pursuing a band of local bicycle thieves last night, a University policeman was on his way to the scene of a mass bike theft in the Freshman Yard...
When he left the Federal Building, he was surrounded by a small crowd of well-wishers, some of whom quietly shook his hand and wished him good luck, while others waved and yelled, "We're with you, Joe." One policeman leaned into the Senator's limousine and said "It's good to see you back in Boston...
...Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story-at first. All he knew was that a Miami policeman, Earl Oestreicher, had been given emergency leave to go to Philadelphia because of the sudden death there of his wife. Brunt remembered Oestreicher: only two months before, he had eloped with Philadelphia Heiress Doris Jean Silver, 22, daughter of a vice president of Food Fair Stores, Inc. (fifth largest U.S. food chain) and niece of the chain...
...next two days, his photograph on every front page, Carpenter slept in movie houses. Then Patrolman Clarence Kerr, leaving the Biltmore Theater with his wife, spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched...