Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the bureau, which has 270 mine inspectors, would need several thousand to enforce the new law. The law was "just that much more federal control" of the mining industry; individual states should have chief responsibility for mine safety; the Bureau of Mines "was never meant to be a policeman." Besides, said Lyon, 99% of mine accidents are caused by miners themselves. Mining companies take every precaution to prevent accidents, "because they cost . . . so much...
...Manhattan, reporters for the tabloid Daily News worked in relays to cover the dark-to-dawn activities of Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut...
...them wink at them, even participate in them, for the simple reason that without them much international trade would die. In Paris, for example, right after the Bourse's legal trading closes at 1:15 p.m., the "illegal" currency market opens on the balcony-with a uniformed policeman keeping order. Such markets have been so common in Europe that U.S. tourists took them for granted, exchanged their money on streets with ease. But this summer tourists are finding a big change. Except in France, the money black markets have all but disappeared, because economic recovery has raised the price...
That was the beginning of an incredible endurance contest between the baron's bank roll and his gullibility, both apparently inexhaustible. Policeman Alberto and Colonel Berthier suavely persuaded the baron that French intelligence could stay in business only if he lent them funds until the National Assembly approved its budget. They entrusted to him four mysterious flasks and a jug that gurgled. "Uranium and heavy water," explained Colonel Berthier. There was even a sinister, bearded Russian who appeared at the baron's Riviera villa with an offer of $850,000 for the uranium. The baron refused...
...football games, dressed in the loud yellow jacket of the Tigers, the professor was usually on hand to lead the cheering. At dances he acted as "bouncer," at elections as "policeman." Sometimes he could be seen mowing his lawn in his underwear, sometimes taking a constitutional at 3 a.m., and sometimes wandering through the Southern Missouri hills, cape and all, looking for Indian mounds...