Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Informed that she would have to go home, even though she had turned 21 in June, Claire became hysterical, punched a policeman in the nose, and landed in a cell of Milan's medieval San Vittore prison...
...also went home to a triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...
Chance of a Lifetime. In Detroit, Edward Jefferson was acquitted after he told the judge how he happened to knock a policeman to the sidewalk: "I saw a big bee land just above the officer's collar on the back of his neck and I didn't want him to get stung, so I hit the bee as hard as I could...
...Guardsmen. Most of the day was spent in making preparations for the night. Vans, trucks and private cars shuttled back & forth, trying to save the belongings of tenants. One tenant, a retired Chicago cop, said, as he helped with the moving, "I saw a lot of things as a policeman but never anything like that. These people are savages...
...correspondents all over the free world. The only charge against him that was not strictly news-gathering Oatis flatly denied. He knew nothing, he said, about "a man named Joe," who was accused of being a leader in a group connected with the assassination of a Czech security policeman long before Oatis came to Prague...