Word: policemanly
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...policeman said, "It's just precautionary...
...Roosevelt never breakfasted on grilled millionaire, America's class structure wasn't significantly changed during his tenure either. But Mora gives his audience a glimpse of the millions who gained employment through F.D.R.'s pet programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration. We see a policeman sternly advising an itinerant freight train rider to "Return where you came from and collect relief and find a government...
...safe removal from uncontrolled crowds. When leaders do mix with the masses, they are surrounded by obviously armed bodyguards. The carefully screened crowds are usually made up of selected party and government workers. But assassination attempts are not unknown. In January 1969 a Soviet army lieutenant disguised as a policeman opened fire on Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev as he was being driven to the Kremlin. Brezhnev escaped unharmed, and the would-be assassin was declared deranged and confined to a mental ward...
...many years. In the end, it was futile. The cause of the furor was the determination of General Francisco Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz, 27, José Humberto Baena Alonso, 23, and José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Solla, 21, were members of a small...
...death sentence of six other terrorists, one of them a pregnant woman, there had been eleven convicts awaiting execution-the most since 1940. All eleven were sentenced under a new anti-terrorist law enacted in July that makes the death penalty automatic for anyone convicted of killing a policeman...