Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Total Symmetry. There was an absolute symmetry in Wellington's political, social and military theory. Author Aldington calls him a world policeman. This is Aldington's way of acknowledging the fact that in Wellington, as in Napoleon, political theory and military strategy were inseparable. The clarity of the Duke's political vision, his mere knowledge of what kind of a world he wanted to gain, preserve and extend determined his actions as directly as the hills and the forts, the number of his troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements...
Three weeks ago a citizen of Taxco went down the Nostril all the way, and did not come back. With him he dragged a Taxco policeman. Two others confessed that they had been hired to do in the man of Taxco. Taxco's mayor, a citizens' committee and the officials of American Smelting Co., which has twelve mines in the vicinity, decided at long last that the pit had its fill. Workmen were sent to seal the Devil's Nostril. When they are finished, 20 ft. of logs, concrete and boulders will cover its secrets...
...already had some experience in Anglo-American relations. Once Portland entertained Lord and Lady Halifax; Mayor Riley sent an official car to take Lady Halifax to a luncheon. The official car turned out to be an old Chevrolet, driven by a shirt-sleeved policeman slightly moist with heat and embarrassment. Relieved to find the Mayor's wife in Lady Halifax' party, the policeman struck up a lengthy conversation...
...Andrew Yacko is a policeman in Yonkers...
...Said Policeman Yacko, 36, father of six: "If I quit here, I lose my seniority and everything I've been working for for twelve years. If I stay and get drafted, who is going to support my family...