Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living. Neither the Rajputs, nor the Moguls, nor the British ever established in India a state whose police reached out to the ordering of people's daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence not to seize power, but out of the fear of the power that was about to fall into the hands of others. And this is a primal fear, deeper than rivalries between such nations as have already known and submitted to police...
...press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...
That did it. By week's end, two of the cops were suspended without pay, the newspapers were black with the story, and Mayor Bill O'Dwyer had directed the prosecuting attorney to investigate the third policeman and to take the photographer's case to the grand jury. New York's Police Commissioner Arthur W. Wallander cried: "There must be no more assaults on our good people. . . . Courtesy must be the watchword of this department...
Next the village policeman arrived. He ordered Dennis not to interfere. Dennis telephoned the local office of the National Farmers' Union. At the other end of the line Secretary Gordon Smith shook his head and rang Area Secretary E. R. Benson for advice...
...that the odd catechism was directed at himself. But now the lights had changed, and the voice went on, "All right, move along. And wait for the light in future." Vag turned in the direction of the voice and nodded cheerfully, but all he saw was a rather hostile policeman in a booth, so he walked on, reading the descriptions of the General Education courses...