Word: policemanly
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...Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." But this is not yet a view that has commended itself to the authorities. "You are very active these days, aren't you?" a senior policeman told Hu recently. "Just you wait," the officer continued. "There'll be a settling of accounts come next fall...
...just a janitor, cleaning up other people's messes. But Clayton has no one to fix his own troubles: a heavy debt exacerbated by an addiction to gambling - and, lately, to losing. Born into a working-class Irish-American family that also weighs on him, Michael was a policeman before joining the firm. The question the film asks: Is he, at heart, a cop who collars the bad guys, or the lawyer who gets them...
...Film industry experts, however, have mourned the $25 million and $10 million riding on Dutt's and Khan's still-to-be-shot films. And fans have expressed dismay at the "excessive" sentences. This week's big kerfuffle was over a policeman who hugged Dutt after his release on bail. The officer was suspended for inappropriate behavior, but was later absolved at a local politician's request...
AGENT MAKEOVER A new military-style uniform that replaces earlier policeman-like attire with flexible cargo pants, quick-release plastic belts and discrete cloth badges...
...Nine years before Rosa Parks' defiance set off the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman returning to Baltimore from Virginia, refused to cede her seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...