Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auxiliary-policeman Duhig has, in fact, become almost the official spokesman of a type of student which has become very important in a University noted for luxury. He lacks only rolled-up sleeves...
Tires. In Detroit, a sneak thief stole a wheel and tire from a minister's car, parked in front of a hotel. The minister went to get a policeman. When he got back to his car, another wheel and tire were gone...
When Cambridge began to organize its system of wardens, fireman, and policeman, it faced the problem of finding a place to drill. The University, undertaking a parallel task, was handicapped by a lack of equipment and trained instructors. They agreed to swap. Cambridge got the use of Memorial Hall; the University was given an opportunity to train its fireman in the station on Harvard Street. Since that first step, plans for even more cooperation have been made and carried to completion. Fire and plane spotters, for example, will be stationed atop Memorial Hall, Widener, and the Houses, for these...
Conquest. Victory was not the viewpoint of "the town" on the Sunday when the invaders arrived. The first mood was confusion. The postman and policeman had gone fishing in a boat owned by Mr. Corell, "the popular storekeeper." They were several miles at sea "when they saw the small, dark transport, loaded with soldiers, go quietly past them." Conscious of their civic duties, the postman and policeman turned back in time to be thrown into the local jail. "The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away. ..." Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper, had donated a lunch, targets, cartridges...
...Europe the innocent are punished for the acts of invisible rebels, under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed...