Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victorious army, through enthusiastic crowds that finally burst into one roaring welter of people and noise in the city's famed Golden Triangle, where blizzards of torn paper swirled and settled only to swirl up again as new waves of screaming rolled up. Only casualty: a motorcycle policeman hit on the wrist by a telephone book someone had neglected to tear...
...Jobs. Upstairs to Chamberlain's old job as Lord President of the Council stumbled Sir John Anderson, whose experiences as policeman in Ireland, Bengal and the General Strike gave him poor training for the job of Minister for Home Security...
...Beverly Hills voice physician, Dr. Harold Barnard, warned him a hundred times to slow down, talk less. Neither pleading nor orders had effect. Said Dr. Barnard for the umptieth time: "He needs a policeman, not a doctor." One evening last week, as the candidate's voice waned into a hoarse rasp, the doctor ordered him flatly to cut it out, sat comfortably down to dinner. Suddenly the train slowed, stopped. Willkie's voice boomed through the dining-car loudspeaker. He had sighted another cluster of voters. Dr. Barnard sighed, got up, switched off the loudspeaker so that...
...Brooklyn, John Coveleskie lay snoozing serenely on a sidewalk. When a policeman awakened him, Catnapper Coveleskie seized the officer's gun, took hasty but sleepy aim, pinked himself...
Meanwhile Lader, who had stood by innocently amused, offered solace to his fellow CRIMSON editor, as the policeman tried to placate the tempestuous victim...