Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threw out Mossadegh, Brainless led his knife-armed toughs on tours of the polling places. Systematically, Brainless pulled voters out of line, searched their pockets for an anti-government ballot. When he found one, the voter was cuffed or stabbed, then turned over to the nearest policeman to be arrested and carted off to jail. Occasionally Shaban sheared off the hair of the victim...
...electronic policeman is there to shepherd the student across, gouging his strength and competitive spirit, leaving him dependent and weak. Other schools have football, Harvard should at least have dangerous crossings, where dodge or be struck is the rule and pedestrians eye one another with mutual respect. Massachusetts Avenue must not be turned into a Welfare Street, an intellectual game preserve. Keep the Freedom of the Roads...
Deep in the forest, the jeep came to a halt and waited in darkness and silence. "The forest was full of eyes," said Henderson afterwards. "The pulse rate was not exactly normal," added Policeman Bernard Ruck. Presently there came a rustling, footsteps, then dark shapes. Two Mau Mau warriors loomed alongside. Henderson waved them aboard and the four drove out of the forest...
...even tell his superiors in Whitehall), the death sentence was commuted, and China smuggled out of jail. The ball and chain were removed from his leg, the ball was placed in a metal money box which was handcuffed to China's wrist, and, disguised as a policeman, he was flown to Nyeri to communicate with the Mau Mau gangs...
...flood of Dragnet fan mail suggests that the U.S. completely forgets that it is a nation of incipient cop haters when its eyes are glued on Webb's show; that it has gained a new appreciation of the underpaid, long-suffering ordinary policeman, and in many cases its first rudimentary understanding of real-life law enforcement. As Sergeant Friday-a decent, harassed, hard-working fellow-Jack Webb is such a convincingly realistic detective that many a cop has written in to ask if he is not a genuine member of the Los Angeles Police Department...