Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years passed, legends sprang up about the spectral old house. The most persistent: it hid a fortune. But nobody but a policeman and crew from the gas company had ever got inside, and they had seen little. Burglars, who had tried, had backed out after setting off booby traps which deluged them with garbage...
...main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...
...Chicago bureau's Jim Bell stood for a long time at a bus stop in The Loop, making a spot check of the current long-skirt vogue. A policeman tapped him on the shoulder and said: "I been watchin' you, buddy. Better move on. We don't like that stuff around here...
John M. Browder '50, one of the occupants of Matthews 2, reported that he had been awakened by the prowler's noise. He entered the suite's living room and found a Yard policeman detaining the intruder...
...When the policeman asked the man to identify himself, he declared that he was the son of Michael J. Sullivan and produced identification cards to support his claim, according to Browder...