Word: sergeant
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George Doucette, a Boston police sergeant, said of the demonstration, "We like them kind of small. It makes our job easier...
Patrolmen Edward Hussey and Peter DeLuca achieved the fourth and fifth best scores on the exam but have not yet been promoted to sergeant, James Pool, DeLuca's attorney, said yesterday...
This Henry is a platoon sergeant rather than lord of the realm. It is not only his gawky stance that denies the cleverness and kingliness of Henry V's character, but also his brusquely rushed vocal delivery that seems to mimic Richard Burton's voice without offering any of its sumptuously resonant timbre...
...action proceeds mainly as a kind of extended barracks-room bull session. But eventually, sexual desire between Richie and Carlyle triggers a racist diatribe from Billy. Suddenly Carlyle flips out his switchblade, slashes Billy (apparently mortally) and then carves up a fat intruding master sergeant, killing him. Physically and dramatically, this seems like an arbitrarily gory denouement, but the logic of inevitable violence has governed the play all along...
Bartlett's pungent assessment of his caddiemaster is "this guy was like your hard-ass Marine sergeant. He used to waste guys in the caddy yard. There were some caddies who just had no scruples. They used to do all kinds of disgusting things on the course. But they didn't stay around long; the caddiemaster took care of them." His voice trailed...