Word: truncheon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faraday, battling in the thick of the mob, kept his policemen at their truncheon work until mobsters suddenly produced guns from beneath their robes. Ping went a bullet and a plugged policeman tumbled off his horse. Mr. Faraday then signaled to Mr. Crosbie for further instructions. Leaning out of his window Mr. Crosbie signaled back: "Police open fire...
...unvirtuous, and to record all for the delectation of the multitude. For one reader of the small boxes on Bitler's foreign policy and the mechanics of his dispensation there are a thousand glutted in the gore of Stasefurt hardware dealers and privy to the use of the Nazl truncheon...
...fight lasted seven hours. Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...
Massing again, they started window-smashing. Dispersed by a second truncheon charge, they massed once more outside the North Shields police station, shouted, "We want to see the Chief Constable...
...them!" he snapped. Promptly brickbats, bottles and paving stones flew. "Charge, men!" he ordered, and for the third time that day North Shields' police put on a smacking, effective truncheon charge...