Word: policemanly
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...undergrowth is not the style of the Daily Mail's influential gossip columnist Nigel Dempster. He claims that he attends many parties that royals do, and when he is leaving he sees Whitaker in the bushes. He insists that he is not a royal-watcher but a "social policeman." About the time that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation's upper classes...
When seven people lure and capture a policeman and then torture him to death, they are entering into war with the law. The skin color of the policeman or the antagonists should not be an issue...
...gang's horse trailer. Fitzgerald was ordered to lie face down in another van, from which he was freed an hour and at least 40 miles later. But by then the most acclaimed and valuable Thoroughbred in Europe, Shergar, was gone, horsenaped. "It was very neat," said a policeman of the caper...
...until the appearance of the Father Brown mysteries in the early '20s that readers discerned, in his vast output, a sense of the author's bedrock beliefs. The tales followed a bumbling, intuitive priest who understood evil more profoundly than any policeman. Chesterton said he based the character on the qualities he found in a real priest, Father John O'Connor, but Brown was, in fact, an idealized projection of his creator...
Many in Memphis disagreed. Some members of the black community accused the police of charging into the house with the express desire to kill. Observed Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey: "A policeman's job is not to mete out punishment. They went in there with the attitude that they would take no prisoners." The Justice Department already has instructed the local FBI office to look into the incident, while Democratic Congressman Harold Ford of Memphis called on Attorney General William French Smith to appoint a special team from Washington to conduct a comprehensive investigation...