Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follows Soloviev's own career. The book opens with a glimpse of a village in the heart of the steppes, where the peasants have suffered harshly from the fighting of 1914-17. The lusty Surov boys bring home their weapons, declare a local soviet, cheerfully prod the village policeman to strip in public as a symbolic means of abdicating his authority; and to ten-year-old Mark Surov, gazing spellbound at the revolutionary bravado of his brothers, it all seems like a new world. From this point on, Soloviev charges through the nightmare of modern Russia at breakneck speed...
Quality-Quantity. In Cincinnati, Policeman Louis A. Schmidt was fired after he admitted that, while on duty, he had "downed two drinks-both fifths...
...death with an ice pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied the whole business before the grand jury. But six days later he admitted all. He had dealt with Strollo after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo...
...been, are and will continue to be the aggressors. But it does not follow that in all parts and phases of that struggle the U.S. and its allies should accept a merely passive, defensive role. Not all of the fight need be under circumstances chosen by the enemy. The policeman need not cede to the criminal all decision as to the pace and place and nature of the struggle...
...They were given flour-sack aprons, assigned to stoves in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom and allowed a day to make their favorite recipes. Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wife of the Vice President-elect, announced the winner: Mrs. Peter S. Harlib, 46, wife of a Chicago policeman. Her prizewinning recipe: Snappy Turtle Cookies.* Her prize...