Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer was Paul-Eugéne Milliet, a policeman's son and professional soldier who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, retired soon after World War I. He died in bed during the Nazi occupation of Paris, but not before he had given his impressions of Van Gogh to a literary friend, who compiled them for the French Communist weekly, Les Lettres Françaises...
...tried to grab a policeman's club was beaten insensible, and several others were clubbed. The clang of ambulances sounded above the shouts and rumbles. An iron fence collapsed, carrying a knot of shrieking women to the ground...
...their legs (unfair to "the sex-starved defendants") and another against "disrespectful" catnapping in court somehow combined in such a way that "one of the most venerable of English judges found himself, one hot summer afternoon, being tapped on the shoulder with a white club by a young military policeman and told to wake up, stay awake, and uncross his legs...
attempts at inner control have multiplied in recent years, especially in state-controlled institutions. The University of California, for example, has a "contact man" between its administrators and the California Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. His job: to investigate the activities of faculty members. A state policeman in Michigan University regularly attends undergraduate political meetings and checks the authors of all controversial letters appearing in the Daily. In February, the University of Washington's President Schlitz turned down a request from its Department of Physics to invite J. Robert Oppenheimer for three months of lectures...
Timber! In Paris, retired Policeman Ernest Carrere, 52, suing for divorce, charged that his wife had exposed him to serious injury by sawing part way through his wooden...