Word: policemanly
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...steer, shot it between the eyes. He and his wife were butchering it with practiced strokes when a vaquero rode up, challenged them, fired over their heads. Scampering away through the mesquite, Mr. & Mrs. Gomez left their tools behind. When they dared go home, they found a policeman waiting on the porch. Last week, cowboy customers of Gomez' Grapevine Inn were sad: no more thick, juicy beefsteaks would they get. Angel was serving two years in prison...
Died. John ("Honest Jack") Curtin, 60, Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia, policeman's son, onetime printer's devil, revolutionary socialist, trade unionist, journalist and political orator, who marshaled Australia's strength to stand off the Jap, and converted it (in co-operation with his good friend General Douglas MacArthur) into the Pacific war's first Allied bastion; of a heart ailment, in Canberra, Australia. Quiet but forceful, austere but approachable, Curtin was described by Winston Churchill as a " commanding, competent and wholehearted leader...
...feeding the hungry, spoke out again last week on the nation's food plight. The meat black market, said he, has taken over an astoundingly large part of the business of supplying civilians. It is now, he added, "an economic force . . . that cannot be caught by a policeman...
...Congressman who argued strongly against the "Hoover amendment" was New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, who becomes Secretary of Agriculture and War Food Administrator next week. Said he: "I would not run from any responsibility, but I don't want to be a policeman...
...Another Big v. Little row developed when Egypt suggested that the Security Council, in keeping the peace, should act only "in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Halifax and Harold Stassen pointed out that in stopping disputes the Council was a policeman, not a judge, and that it could not wait to adjudicate rights & wrongs while the brawl went on. Said Stassen : "The people of this world want to establish an organization which, when there is a fight, will say 'Stop fighting...