Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Senate Office Building, the would-be assassin walked quietly out into the street. Within two hours police found him, learned that he was an ex-Capitol policeman named William L. Kaiser and fetched him back to be identified by Bricker...
...shot at the Senator? Kaiser fancied that he had three very good reasons: 1) he had been fired from his policeman's job in April and a Bricker appointee had taken his place; 2) when he had been wiped out in the crash of an Ohio building & loan firm 15 years ago, the name of Ohio's then Attorney General, John Bricker, had appeared on all the papers that spelled his financial ruin; 3) Bricker had done nothing to help him get his job or his money back...
Just before dawn, three grey-hatted gendarmes rapped sharply at the door of a modest Athens villa. Kosta Tsakolos, head of OPLA (Communist execution squad) during the 1944 leftist revolution, opened the door. "Come with us," ordered a policeman. "I am not coming with you," said the terrorist chief. "Under Greek law you cannot make an arrest at a home during the hours of darkness...
...deputy sheriffs spotted "20 in a line going like hell to the west." A Spokane woman saw five fluttering "washtubs," each "about the size of a five-room house." A Seattle coast guardsman took a picture of a "saucer" at dusk. The picture showed a pinpoint of light. A policeman saw a lone saucer skimming high over San Francisco Bay. From people in Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and 29 other states and Canada, reports came...
Before sunup one day last week, the queue started to form in front of Barry's Jewelry Store in Glendale, Calif. By noon, when the doors opened, there were 3,000 in line. Waiting for them were twelve regular and eight extra clerks, one uniformed policeman, one private detective. Waiting, too, were electric clocks, cigaret lighters, liquor sets-18,500 items in all. Retail value ran from $2 to $50. But for each item the price was only 18?, in honor of Barry's 18th anniversary...