Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They stumbled through alleys and courts littered with tin cans, gritty with cinders and broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a hand at the rows of backyard privies: "We found a man frozen to death in one of these toilets last winter," he told them casually...
Soft-voiced, hard-eyed men in Kentucky's "Bloody" Harlan County began saying Ambrose Metcalfe was a "candidate" (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he pinned on a policeman's badge in 1946. It took him just two years and eight months to get there. Last week, when his kinfolk took his bullet-riddled body up the dusty Poor Fork road and buried it in a little family cemetery, many a hillman thought Ambrose had actually outlived his life expectancy...
Hill, who cracked the old chestnut, "No my father doesn't work for a living--he's a cop" in front of a policeman outside the University Theater two weeks ago, had previously refused to pay a $3 fine ordered by the Third District Court...
...future," said His Majesty. "God Save the King" sang Anne Maggie Crowley, a Dublin newsvendor, as she elbowed her way through the crowds, carrying a scribbled poster: "King George recognizes Republic!" Shouts of "Good Old George" mingled with those of "Up the Republic!" Mused a smiling Dublin policeman: "Times have changed. If that auld one had sung 'God Save the King' a few years ago, she would have finished up in the Liffey...
...first day of the strike, 18 students were arrested, 17 for disorderly conduct and one for assaulting a policeman, and that seemed to be about all that had been accomplished at C.C.N.Y. When some C.C.N.Y. critics muttered that the whole affair had been inspired by Communists, both the college and Strike Leader William Fortunato, president of the Student Council, denied it. But nobody denied that it was hard to keep the Commies from taking the strike over. For one thing, a representative of the Civil Rights Congress, labeled subversive by Attorney