Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reserved Seat. In Los Angeles, Salesman J. N. Gilckin was charged with forgery after he gave Policeman Eugene Markham a bogus $5 check in payment for two tickets to the Los Angeles police show...
...farm, reporters were not allowed to follow King Paul into the house. Ruth noticed that neighbor women who had come to help prepare the King's dinner were going in the back door. She followed the ladies inside. Before she could find an apron, however, a policeman spotted the undisguised reporter and hustled her outside. Later, after talking with farmers' wives and children, she was able to write a lively story of the day's visit...
Like Victor Hugo's dogged Javert, Jean Baylot, Prefect of Paris Police, was a policeman with one idea. The shootings, burglaries, thievery and other routine crimes he left to his staff to handle; the shadowy underworld which lies behind the beauty of Paris hardly knew his name. Baylot concentrated 16,000 policemen and his own single-minded will on hunting and harassing Communists. He was uncommonly effective: when Parisian Communists said the name of Jean Baylot, they spat...
...time to reporting instead of waging their own war with the censors." Rosenhouse, a native of Chicago and a graduate of U.C.L.A., was first introduced to hotheaded political action in the summer of 1940. He was in Mexico City when a crowd celebrating Independence Day began to riot. A policeman picked up a chunk of ice, heaved " , it into the crowd. The ice struck Rosenhouse on the head, and when he came to, a big Texan was mopping his face...
...relative demanding ransom for the rest of him, for the dacoit's punishment of informers was swift and bloody. But Man Singh, for all his legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing a policeman in line of duty, he would often pay for a fine funeral and settle a generous sum on the officer's widow...