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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to one policeman, onlookers knew the assailant was a Harvard man because of the way he dressed. But officers either did not have, or were unwilling to give out, a more specific description of the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Still Looking for Slugging Student | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

...maroon dressing gown appeared on the rear platform. He ran a hand through his sparse hair and grinned. "Hi, there," said Ike Eisenhower. "I'm sorry I'm not dressed." He shivered a minute in the near-freezing cold, glanced at the scarlet-coated Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who had just taken his post by the door. Then, with a friendly wave to the crowd, he retreated to the warmth of his private car. A few moments later the presidential train crossed the border and President Eisenhower began his two-day state visit to the Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: State Visit | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

Police admit that the addendum to their permission doesn't always have much effect. In fact, officers have had to silence trucks that were interrupting court proceedings. No one, as yet, has seen a policeman shooing a Councilman's truck away from the Square, and this is natural. If there were required registration for sound trucks, plus laws forbidding them access to such obvious places as hospitals and schools, the problem would be solved. Until then, students will live periodically shut off from nature by the closed windows that fruitlessly try to keep out the raucous strains of That...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Captive Audience | 11/12/1953 | See Source »

...Survivor. In London, Mounted Policeman James J. Goss won a divorce on grounds of cruelty after he charged that his wife Janet had 1) hidden his cigarettes and newspapers, 2) frequently kicked and bitten him, 3) broken a pot on his head, 4) thrown a poker at him, 5) stuck a knife in his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Seeing they could not save the hero, the still lessening ranks took up the cry of "On to Nate's." Switfly two proctors headed the leaders off. Their spirit broken, the would be rioters disbanded. A policeman shrugged his head and said, "These Harvard guys just can't start a riot anymore...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: "A Real Sock It to 'Em" | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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