Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of the last and most successful of the new U.S. Army's 1941 field maneuvers (295,000 troops battling in the Carolinas), Lieut. General Hugh Drum made a professional observation as sobering as a policeman's club...
Dream Walking. In Portland, Ore., a sober policeman put his hand in a drunk's pocket, drew out a snake...
...past two months, juramentado murders in Sulu have averaged one every other day. In Jolo, the biggest city (pop. 6,000), Moro Aharaji went juramentado after being conscripted, chopped off the head of a Chinese baker, killed one Filipino soldier and slashed another before he was stopped by a policeman's shotgun blast. He fell dead on exactly the spot where the same policeman had killed another juramentado ten days earlier. Townspeople shivered, waited for the next attack...
...token payment" by Mexico, other compensation to be determined if possible by one U.S. and one Mexican appraiser) it left them no effective out. They could hardly appeal again to the State Department. Said one oilman: "We'd be like a woman raped by a policeman calling...
Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one morning as the General dismounted before his box and thanked him for guarding the capital's matutinal peace...