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This was an advance over any position either he or Tom Dewey had yet taken on this point. Then Candidate Roosevelt used a homely illustration. He did not think, he said, that a policeman would be very effective if, on seeing a housebreaker, he would first have to call a meeting of the town council to get a warrant...
Larsen joined the R.C.M.P., not to be a policeman but to become an Arctic mariner for the force. His ship, the St. Roch, was specially built for Arctic voyaging. A diesel-powered schooner, she was built of timbers two-thirds heavier than those used in any ordinary craft. Her hull is sheathed in Australian ironbark-the only wood that can stand the grinding pressure of the pack...
...longer the axis between bourgeois. Key West and revolutionary Havana; he now works out of wartime Martinique, and the villains are Vichyites. Marie is no longer an idealized image of happy marriage; she is a tall, hoarse, egregious, 22-year-old tramp, so worldly-wise that when a policeman all but slaps her jaw out of joint she hardly bats...
Side by side with the German terror flourished a Greek terror. The British had expected to arrive as liberators. Instead, since the bulk of the German forces had been withdrawn, they found themselves playing the role of policeman to a country on the brink of civil war - and sometimes over the brink. The Greek resistance forces wore the insignia of E.A.M. (leftwing National Liberation Front) or E.L.A.S. (E.A.M.'s fighting...
Decoy. In Houston, nine women watched a policeman arrest another woman in the middle of a crowded street, rushed into the street to get a closer view, were all arrested, like the first, for jay walking...