Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorcycle policeman roared up. Fox put the end of the pistol into his mouth and fumbled at the trigger. But he succeeded only in knocking out his false teeth. As he grabbed for them, the policeman grabbed for the pistol. Fox was disarmed and arrested...
Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years as Deputy Commissioner of Police, admires or despises him because, in a world of utter corruption, Policeman Scobie seems utterly incorruptible. What they do not know-what Scobie himself does not know at first-is that in order to feed his voracious sense of pity, Scobie is ready, if necessary, to break the most cherished laws of both Church & State...
...policeman pronounced a diagnosis that told at least as much about the postwar world as it did about the turret gunner. "Supina," said the cop, "is suffering from hallucinations of world peace...
...instead of a simple distinction between premeditation and impulse, the amendment set up some more subtle definitions. It was first-degree murder if connected with robbery, burglary, rape, sex offenses, the death of a policeman or prison guard, the use of explosives. Repeated use of a slow poison, such as arsenic, would be a capital offense; but a single, lethal dose of prussic acid would be only second-degree murder...