Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight later a Caen policeman tried to stop what he thought was the same car, got shot for trying...
...increasing sabotage and terrorist activities." Twelve Serbs were executed for illegal possession of weapons, 122 "Communist and Jewish saboteurs" were put to death in another mass execution. Somewhere in northern Yugoslavia 90 persons were killed to avenge the death of one German soldier and one puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo because he had protested against brutal treatment of the Serbs...
Knifey spent the night at an all-night movie house, in the morning rode to Jackson Park. There a couple in a car picked him up. Knifey pulled his gun, stuck it at the man's head. The man saw a policeman and ran his car up on the sidewalk, shouting for help. Knifey shot the policeman. "Like all good coppers, he tries to get me," said Knifey. "That's his tough luck...
Damning to Sir Jock was the testimony of his African houseboy, who had seen him take two pistols from his bedroom to his study shortly before the murder; the story of the policeman who found part of a bloody golf stocking and bits of charred sacking in a bonfire Sir Jock built the morning after the murder; his own question to a police inspector: "If you found your wife in bed with a man and shot him, would you be hanged for murder...
Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security and Home Secretary. "Herbert is a Cockney." He was born in Lambeth, "son of a policeman and a housemaid." There he studied "Marx, Engels, Darwin and Vandervelde...