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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illegal. This year a set of stringent parietal rules has gone into effect. Previously no one quite knew what the rules were, and rather than check with a dean, everyone simply forgot there was a curfew. This situation lasted until an indignant student complained to the dean that a policeman had broken up his five a.m. party. New rules, of course, resulted, prompting indignant letters to the Yale Daily News as well as a Law School "League of Reaction...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman and John G. Wofford, S | Title: Harvard, Yale Law: Academic Parallel | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...began bubbling incomprehensibly in a Beacon Hill accent. Wiping bits of moisture from her face, she turned to a tramp who was lounging on the steps and cried, "Sitting around? Mercy! I thought you boys studied all the time!" She dashed in and I followed, but a policeman turned me away and I had to climb in a window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Some Enchanted Tea Time | 11/17/1954 | See Source »

...back you guys!" shouted the policeman as he slammed the doors an hour before the 7:30 p.m. scheduled performance. An elderly lady who barely missed getting in sidled up to the policeman and remarked, "Now this just goes to show how popular Joe is, and how right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Monster Rally for McCarthy | 11/9/1954 | See Source »

...represent?" questioned the policeman. The crowd quieted, ready for a wrong answer...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Monster Rally for McCarthy | 11/9/1954 | See Source »

...there will be one policeman and two patrol cars on the street election day," be shouted. "And even this is not enough protection. Somebody could get hurt, and I say if it costs us $1000 or even $10,000 in overtime pay they deserve and must get protection... our citizens...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves and Cliff F. Thompson, S | Title: Politics and Protection | 11/3/1954 | See Source »

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