Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...
...agreement. A reckless one or two applauded these strong words, never before uttered aloud on the Underground. Passengers who had docilely left the train discovered what was going on and re-entered like lions. The helpless guard fetched the station master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments. Then the station master gave in, and the train went on to Dagenham East with the rebels waving their bowlers and umbrellas...
...developed that we had come at a bad moment. The Coke company had just warned the strikers to "keep moving" and had sent for a policeman to keep the picketers off the grass around the building. In retaliation, the union had countered by refusing to allow employees to go home in yellow Coke trucks. "It's this kind of thing that causes violence," the local president warned...
...handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs; he spent 30,000 francs daily on entertaining; he contributed heavily to local sports and charities and was on the best of terms with everyone, from the prefect to the policeman assigned to guard...
Cloudy Future. A sharp-faced Communist with piercing, grey-blue eyes, this shadowy policeman probably has more blood on his hands than anybody else alive. He wears inconspicuous grey-blue suits and thick-soled cops' shoes whether escorting commissars, bowing to ladies at diplomatic receptions, or going to soccer games and tennis matches. Proud of his own tennis game at 53, he boasts that he has licked the best man Russia sent to Wimbledon this year (who may only have been playing customer's tennis...