Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House, said: "It may be D-day but it looks just like any other morning to me." Two days earlier the U.S. had received a false invasion flash from the Associated Press's London office, sent by an inexperienced girl teletype operator. Now, in Redding, Calif., a policeman echoed the sentiments of many citizens when he said: "That girl wasn't far off, was she?" Awakened by a New York Post reporter at her West Point hotel, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower exclaimed : "The invasion? What about the invasion? Why hasn't someone told...
Police beat back the rioters at the door of the French officers' club. But the cursing mob broke into a nearby movie theater jampacked with Moslem women, panicked them with stones and bullets, wounded several, killed a policeman and a boy before dispersing...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
Beaufort Swancutt, an infantry officer with a disordered, unstable record that had somehow escaped the notice of the Army, had committed one of the most inexplicable crimes in the service's modern history. At Camp Anza he had killed two 19-year-old girls, his captain and a policeman in a wild shooting rampage that had begun while he was sitting at a table drinking beer...
...push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...