Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaffer hesitated. Then, while a policeman named Leonard Conn covered him with a Tommy gun, he jumped up on the truck's framework, lifted the canvas which shielded Daniels. The youth had five pistols and three rifles beside him. But he called, "Don't shoot! Tell me what to do!" and climbed out, trembling...
...candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, "[is] to spread out from oneself, in every direction, like a spider, a whole spider's web of love, and to catch in it everything that comes along-whether it is an old woman or a child, a girl or a policeman...
...Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
...city's opportunities. In a purely political sense it has a first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William O'Dwyer. According to an old saw, he is a typical New Yorker in that he was not born there...
...Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...