Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They rounded the corner, stealthily advancing on the girls' dormitories. Suddenly, on the bridge ahead, there appeared the figure of a single policeman, outlined against the dawn. 'Where do you think you guys are going?" he barked. Nobody heard, or at least nobody listened, for they continued to advance. Finally, frustrated by the incongruity of 170 red-coated, instrument-bearing Harvard bandsmen, marching irresistably in the early light, the Cornell policeman yielded, "There's over a hundred of you, and only one of me," he admitted dourly. "I can't stop...
...France seethed with indignant fascination last week as the arrest of one Communist-hunting policeman mush roomed into a major scandal involving high government servants, top state secrets and espionage. While Premier Pierre Mendès-France labored across the channel at the London Conference, a dizzying succession of arrests, disclosures and confessions revealed that vital secrets of France's National Defense Committee had methodically leaked to the Communists. There were suggestions that the secrets had been going to other foreign powers as well. The permanent secretary-general of the Defense Committee was indicted for negligence...
...from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...Paris. After 15 hours of uninterrupted grilling by four secret service men, Baranès admitted receiving the committee documents from Labrusse and turning them over to the Communists. He also admitted turning the documents as well as certain Communist information back to Dides in order to convince the policeman that he was an honest double-dealer-but, Baranès explained, everything he gave to Dides was first doctored by the Reds to conceal or mislead...
Catharsis. In Milwaukee, after walking up to a 205-lb. policeman and slapping him across the cheek, Richard D. Tump, 20, told the court: "I don't like policemen. I had all this inside me; now I guess it's released...