Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, two white Kenya policemen climbed into a jeep and drove down the rutted trail that leads from Nyeri into the forest at the foot of Mt. Kenya. It was still dark among the camphor trees, but Policeman Ian Henderson knew that Mau Mau sentinels were watching, and he drove without headlights...
Close to half the Senators walked into the chamber firmly opposed to the new regime−the Communists and the neo-Fascists because they favor chaos and particularly hate the man who swung the policeman's billy so energetically against their riotmakers; the Nenni Socialists because, as one of their Senators confessed, the Socialist tie to the Communists "is becoming even greater;" the Monarchists because they dislike aspects of Scelba's mildly left-of-center political program...
...home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville invited Negroes from a nearby air base to attend any or all of its services, right along with whites...
...entrance to a Paris exhibition stood a blue-uniformed policeman. "En-trez, Messieurs-Mesdames," he called, "everything you see around you is false." The show, organized by the Surete Generale to increase vigilance against artistic forgeries, contained fake stamps, coins, "neolithic'' pottery, manuscripts and old masters, many of them so well done that they had fooled even the experts. Among the best forgeries: a Goya Crockery Seller on old canvas, with small, fanlike cracks to simulate age, a clever Pissarro landscape with false documentation of past owners, along with dazzling phonies labeled Da Vinci, Rubens, Corot. There...
Knoke's mold was that of most young Germans raised in Hitler's Reich. Born in Hamelin town, the son of a Prussian policeman who believed in the strap (for discipline) and the rifle (for exercise), he was press-ganged into the Hitler Youth and taught that the Führer knows best. When Germany attacked Poland ("to liberate the terrorized Germans"), Knoke wrote in his diary: "The prospect of actually experiencing war rather appeals...