Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to understand what might have to be done. Russia-apparently in all U.S. minds-was the real villain, the real and terrible foe. Said Detroit Salesman Zacharias Cosmas: "Hit the main Bolsheviks. The tail won't bite if you hit the head." Said New Orleans Policeman Ernest F. Curtis: "We should declare war on Russia officially and then drop all the A-bombs we can on her." But most people didn't talk that...
...case any of New York City's 19,000 cops should be planning to do their Christmas shopping early, the city's mustachioed new Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy last week warned against an old coppers' custom. He would fine, suspend, fire or prosecute any policeman caught, as three captains were last year, soliciting gratuities, handing out lists of expected presents from saloon and store owners on the beat or for that matter, even accepting gifts...
...never offered no policeman a bribe...
Redemption is marred by the Dostoevskian notion that a true spiritual rebirth can come only after a great sin; consequently, its characters hazily confuse forgiveness of Kavanagh's crime with left-handed apologies for it. When a policeman speaks with horror of Kavanagh's "cold knife," Father Mellowes blandly replies that the knife "was not so cold as your justice"-which seems to suggest that, for Stuart, morality can be measured with a thermometer. Like his character, Ezra, Stuart wants brotherhood but in a typically Irish mood has no good word for humility. If men can find grace...
...curious non-university people), or at least that students get priority, by issuing ickets to faculty and students, or merely by checking bursar's cards. Third, determine a policy on the saving of seats for friends (and, if it is to be permitted, then some system for informing the policeman at the door). In general the University has handled the crowds disgracefully. Henrik Krollus...