Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maybe sooner," said the other, "but I won't mind being a policeman for six months or so if the Army sends me to school part-time...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...Canadian people could claim a share of the credit. They had dug deep into their jeans to pay boosted income taxes, to buy victory bonds. Canada's tough, able Price Policeman Donald Gordon did the rest. Among other things, he poured out subsidies (to bridge the gap between fixed prices and rising costs) at a $140,000,000-a-year clip...
...State Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932, five years later marched off with a green-shirted "Irish Army...
...When a policeman came into the bar, Otto Wilson was talking to another woman. The policeman came up behind him, looked at his cut hand, clapped a handcuff on his wrist...