Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese in Singapore were stoical under bombing. Some 1,000 were mobilized, given weapons and put under twelve leaders sent from Chungking. Truckloads of khaki-clad Chinese Communists rode to battle singing and saluting with clenched fists-a salute which on one occasion was answered by a grinning policeman, whose main job for several years had been the rounding up of Communists. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his countrymen in Singapore a message: "Victory of the Allies means our victory...
...opened fire on a group of colored troops in Alexandria, Louisiana, and 29 of the soldiers were wounded. A War Department investigation has determined that, "while a show of force may have been necessary to disperse the crowd which gathered when a colored soldier resisted arrest by a military policeman, the shooting was unnecessary." This was not the first, but merely the most spectacular example of violence against colored troops on leave. Nor will it be the last as long as these troops are kept in the South. There are certainly camps enough in the North and West to accomodate...
...core maker and molder was a policeman...
Bulge. In Rochester, N.Y., when a woman complained she had been robbed, a policeman thought he saw her money bulging her stocking, told her so. She explained: "Them's my teeth...
...crowds on Fifth Avenue ignored the sirens. In Times Square spectators reading the news bulletins paid no attention when police ordered them off the street. On a street corner a couple of volunteer wardens got into an argument over whose corner it was. An angry passerby said to a policeman: "What the hell's the reason for scaring people to death...