Word: policemanly
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...Egypt's fanatic and xenophobic Moslem Brotherhood, now driven underground by Egypt's military junta. One recent Friday an imam who belongs to the Brotherhood preached that the government had sold out to the British. He paused dramatically, then he called attention to the presence of a policeman in the congregation. The angry crowd beat up the cop and before the milling was over 23 of the faithful were behind bars. The following Friday, in the delta city of Tanta, another imam accused Egypt's rulers of being "heretics who do not comply with the teaching...
...divisions guarding the containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...
...Brooklyn. One of the plainclothesmen had worked the district for 31 years. He remembered when it was a "real swell" neighborhood. Now it is seedy. Not a slum, not by any definition the worst part of New York, but a down-at-heels place where respectable people, said the policeman, are not safe outdoors at night...
...Arab went down, the colonel kneed him in the groin. The Arab tried to get up; another cop caught him across the jaw with a club. Down went the Arab and the next cop kicked him, twice. He got up again and ran into the arms of still another policeman, who poked him into a sitting position with the muzzle of a carbine...
Unknown to all but a very few, Emilie Dionne had been sick almost from the beginning with epilepsy, a disease rarely cured. Periodically, she was stricken with seizures. Last month a policeman found her wandering, apparently lost, on a street in Montreal. One day last week, when she was visiting at a convent near Ste. Agathe, Que. to decide whether she also might choose the life of a nun, Emilie was stricken again. She suffered three successive fits. No doctor was called, but next morning she stayed in her room to rest. A short while later, a nurse found Emilie...