Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's over a hundred of you and only one of me--I can't stop you," the policeman replied...
...best-known enlisted man in the world, U.S. Army Private G. David Schine, 27, won a promotion to private first class, was ordered to Alaska as a military policeman...
When prospective customers enter the annex, they pass several clerks stationed to guard against the one-way entry being used as an exit. Anyone who slips out faces a policeman alerted by spotters in the Coop's second-story rear windows. While students browse through the open book stacks, a detective scans them carefully until they reach the cash registers, which are also watched by a policeman...
...Egypt's fanatic and xenophobic Moslem Brotherhood, now driven underground by Egypt's military junta. One recent Friday an imam who belongs to the Brotherhood preached that the government had sold out to the British. He paused dramatically, then he called attention to the presence of a policeman in the congregation. The angry crowd beat up the cop and before the milling was over 23 of the faithful were behind bars. The following Friday, in the delta city of Tanta, another imam accused Egypt's rulers of being "heretics who do not comply with the teaching...
...Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...