Word: policemanly
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...keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman ("Tommy, didn't your mother ever tell you that it's not nice to go into people's houses and open their refrigerators...
...vote suggested that most Algerians want peace and some tie to France. But it did not bring these ends visibly nearer. In pre-election raids, F.L.N. terrorists killed 17, including three candidates, in Algeria, plus one policeman and four civilians in Paris. And among Frenchmen as well as Algerians impatience for peace was mounting. In Toulouse, the Catholic, pro-Communist and independent unions have joined forces to demand immediate negotiations with the F.L.N. France's big Socialist Party is agitating for a ceasefire, and last week the potent National Students Union announced that it planned to resume its links...
...just running for fun," Robert C. Johnson. 48, explained to friends who asked him why he got into a hopeless election contest. On a dare, Johnson, a political unknown, operator of a small Jacksonville clothing factory specializing in policeman and fireman uniforms, had entered Florida's Democratic primary as a candidate for the unpaid but influential party post of national committeeman...
...discuss new elections and to promise no more police intervention on university campuses. When the request was refused, the crowd again pushed forward. A tear-gas shell fell near the front rank of students and failed to explode. When a student moved forward to toss it back, a policeman shot...
...world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short stories, as in his novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sillitoe's characters are spry, gamy, wry-humored, and view the British policeman not as a kindly bobby but as "a dirty, bullying, jumped-up bastard...