Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped...
...week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were present to give first aid. Otherwise, said Police Chief...
...crowing "disturbance" came in February, 1927, when 40 students were arrested after battling a vast assemblage of local policemen following a "Mid-Nite Smokers." One policeman told the court that some of the students had been taking their minds off the UT's performers by drinking "some of that awful modern liquor--stuff I wouldn't feed my own children...
...feels his life was shaped by his first crime, which affirmed, for him, a boyhood suspicion that he was different from other people. So he consciously enforces "normality" on himself, makes himself act like the people around him, advocates order and authority; joins the Fascist Party as a secret policeman, and marries a "normal" girl he does not love. When he finds alive the man he thought he had shot, he realizes that the act had nothing to do with shaping his life. The book concludes that man is snared in his own destiny...
Nightclub singer Lizabeth Scott is the same as ever. She serves the function of squealing to the cops, which in turn helps an over-eager young policeman to trap and shoot two of Ryan's gang, which in turn makes Ryan shoot the eager cop. This enables Mitchum to lock...