Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions guarding the containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...
...Arab went down, the colonel kneed him in the groin. The Arab tried to get up; another cop caught him across the jaw with a club. Down went the Arab and the next cop kicked him, twice. He got up again and ran into the arms of still another policeman, who poked him into a sitting position with the muzzle of a carbine...
...popularity and power. The winner: Donald S. (for Sparling) Leonard, 51, a state trooper who rose to be state police commissioner, a post he resigned two years ago to run unsuccessfully for the Republican senatorial nomination. Years ago, Trooper Leonard escorted governors' cars and decided that even a policeman could be governor. When he broke his back in a motorcycle accident while chasing a speeder, he used his convalescence to attend law school. Known as an honest cop and a shrewd fighter, Don Leonard has made thousands of friends throughout Michigan, but few politicians are ready to bet that...
Unknown to all but a very few, Emilie Dionne had been sick almost from the beginning with epilepsy, a disease rarely cured. Periodically, she was stricken with seizures. Last month a policeman found her wandering, apparently lost, on a street in Montreal. One day last week, when she was visiting at a convent near Ste. Agathe, Que. to decide whether she also might choose the life of a nun, Emilie was stricken again. She suffered three successive fits. No doctor was called, but next morning she stayed in her room to rest. A short while later, a nurse found Emilie...
...country's three little colonies on the west coast of India "a small hearth of the spirit of the West in the East." Last week the hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized his rifle and began spraying bullets...