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Word: policeman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion against its real backgrounds. A once famed German juggler (Kirk Douglas), mentally unbalanced as a result of having seen his wife and two children killed in a Nazi concentration camp, comes to Israel in 1949 as a D.P. His unreasoned fear of authority leads him to strike a policeman who asks for his identification papers. Thinking he has killed the policeman, he runs away in a panic. His journey takes him from Haifa to the Syrian border, where he finally finds physical and emotional haven on a kibbutz (collective farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...young 'Ntoni sank to the running of contraband, stabbed the local policeman in a brawl and was sentenced to five years at hard labor. Dishonored by her brother's crime, the younger sister ran away and became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate in Sicily | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...fire was discovered shortly after 9 p.m. in a suite occupied by seniors Robert O. Angle, David B. MacFarland, and Thomas M. Wallace. Michael Levinson '55, the occupant of a nearby room, and Henry Rogers, a Yard policeman, reported the outbreak to Cambridge firemen. The first engines arrived on the scene about 9:15 p.m. and set up hose lines from nearby Memorial Drive to the fourth floor suite. A large crowd of onlookers soon gathered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze Destroys F-Entry Room in Winthrop House | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...duties of the proctor are centered around his capacity as a policeman," committee chairman Rand all W. Taylor '54, reported. He must enforce parietal rules, protect University property, and try to mix informally with his charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Urges Freshman Proctors Increase Role in Advising Program | 4/22/1953 | See Source »

Prayer Meeting. In Ciudad Juarez, Mex., two pickpockets kneeling in a church robbed Andres Quinonez of his wallet and $13 while he was praying, were arrested by a policeman kneeling behind them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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