Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...
...Policeman's Lot. In Lebanon, Ind., Patrolman Alva Lundy turned in his badge, bitterly explained: "I got a cussing with every ticket I passed...
...risen to the rate of one a week. Sounding somewhat like an anxious mother telling her children not to take candy from strangers, Austria's Ministry of the Interior last week counseled: 1) insist on seeing the badge of any agent who approaches you claiming to be a policeman; 2) do not enter any car unless the agent in charge is a legitimate policeman; 3) leave your name, the name of the agent and the number of his car with a third person...
...accomplished was demonstrated one day last week when Russian soldiers seized a middle-aged woman at 9 a.m., at one of Vienna's busiest intersections. She struggled desperately as she was pulled into the Russian jeep. To establish her identity, she tossed her handbag to a bewildered Austrian policeman. The Russians patiently stopped their jeep, and took the handbag from the policeman. Then they drove off with the woman...
...trial were, in a sense, more important than the great and obvious evildoers sentenced earlier. They were men who had never, with their own hands, fired a shot or beaten a Jew. But they were as indispensable to the totalitarian state as the soldier, the policeman and the executioner. They were the plodding men with the filing-cabinet minds-the bureaucrats...