Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeding the hungry, spoke out again last week on the nation's food plight. The meat black market, said he, has taken over an astoundingly large part of the business of supplying civilians. It is now, he added, "an economic force . . . that cannot be caught by a policeman...
...Congressman who argued strongly against the "Hoover amendment" was New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, who becomes Secretary of Agriculture and War Food Administrator next week. Said he: "I would not run from any responsibility, but I don't want to be a policeman...
...Another Big v. Little row developed when Egypt suggested that the Security Council, in keeping the peace, should act only "in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Halifax and Harold Stassen pointed out that in stopping disputes the Council was a policeman, not a judge, and that it could not wait to adjudicate rights & wrongs while the brawl went on. Said Stassen : "The people of this world want to establish an organization which, when there is a fight, will say 'Stop fighting...
This newest step forward on the road to Tokyo involved revision of the usual Mac-Arthur strategy of hit 'em where they ain't to one of hit 'em where they are-and call a military policeman...
...more overwhelming are shots of bereaved women as they touch and caress the wounds and the frozen feet of their dead; or the restrained but colossal grief and passion for retribution in the faces of the men & women in the audience as they react to the German secret field policeman's admission that he is responsible for the deaths of "no more than 40" Russian civilians...