Word: policemanly
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...making a bus transfer in the Square when a police van passed by; two students were picked up on Holyoke Street, several blocks from the "riot" in front of the University Theatre, by a passing Black Maria; one student had his nose broken and face lacerated by a policeman attempting to knock a pipe from his mouth...
...roar eventually died down except for brief bursts during the replays and when Howard Cosell, trying to reach Foreman, was shown being pushed away by a helmeted Jamaican policeman. As the post-fight hoopla ended and the picture faded from the screen, the lights came on, the fans began to file out. John Kiley started up on the organ and Boston Garden changed back from the scene of a glamorous prize fight into its old grimy self...
Such an incident would have gone virtually unnoticed in any major city in the U.S. In London, Fleet Street and the BBC treated the shootout as if it were a holocaust. The reason: that was only the third shooting of a suspect by a London policeman since...
...gunfight in a Manhattan steak-house left one plainclothes policeman wounded in the stomach, a bystander shot in the thigh and Joseph Gruttola on the run. Three more policemen chased Gruttola (who had been shot in the jaw), caught him and charged him with robbery and attempted murder. Then, to their indignation, the accused cop-shooter was released by Judge Bruce Wright on bail of just $500 in cash...
...strongest law and order candidate around is Biaggi. A former cop, Biaggi was wounded ten times in the course of duty, and is the most decorated policeman in the city's history. The Bronx congressman has a moderately liberal voting record, but because of his police background, he has been branded an arch-conservative similar to Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. In his campaign, Biaggi will have to present a set of clearly thought-out positions on issues to convince reluctant Jewish moderates that he is not a racist or far rightist...