Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turner, a Fort William policeman, was patrolling his beat on the Lake Superior waterfront when the propeller of a passing ship stunned a fish and knocked it to the surface. A seagull swooped down, grabbed the fish, then dropped it on the dockside at Turner's feet. It was a 2½-lb. pickerel...
Never before had a New York cop gotten such a turnout-not even the late Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine nor any policeman killed in line of duty...
This was everyone's great hope. But in the third week of the "police action" in Korea, with the policeman still being roughed up by the thugs he had gone to arrest, the details of just how the military expected to bring such hopes to realization were far from clear...
After a tour of New York City Police Headquarters, Princess Gabriela Pacelli, 36, niece-in-law of Pope Pius XII, reported that one thing amazed her: "You cannot distinguish detectives in civilian clothes from other citizens. In Italy you can tell a policeman no matter how he is dressed...
When the trial began in the crenelated, moated courthouse of nearby Turnhout, Witgoor's constable was called to testify. He shuddered violently and protested that witchcraft was not a policeman's business. Then Judge Boone took a moment to clear his throat. In that moment the constable fled through the doorway to freedom. A court attendant hurried after him, but there was no sign of the fugitive. "Witchery," murmured the court spectators...