Search Details

Word: cop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

WHEN Democrat Frank Rizzo ran Philadelphia from the mayor's office in the 1970s, people called him a bully. A former cop and police commissioner in the late 1960s, Rizzo was renowned for using his power to bash those whom he once called "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Being Frank in Philly | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...There was a cop who lived in this project where I live who just called in sick and said some of his friends had called in sick and that they wouldn't go for it," says William B. Cunningham, a community activist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Different Kind of Police Work | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Tell me, Chuckie, what do your parents do for a living? Your dad's a cop, you say? How much do Boston policemen make these days...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Talking About the Wrong Stuff | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...Black and White eight blazed past six other crews on Mission Bay to cop first place with a 7:36.3 time, almost three seconds and a full boat length ahead of second-place University of British Columbia...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: W. Lightweights Repeat Title | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...really serves are gun manufacturers and gun importers, whose sole interest is to sell as many deadly weapons of as many kinds to as many Americans as possible. The N.R.A. never saw a weapon it didn't love. When American police officers raised their voices against the sale of "cop-killer" bullets -- Teflon-coated projectiles whose sole purpose is to penetrate body armor -- the N.R.A. mounted a campaign to make people believe this ban would infringe on the rights of deer hunters, as though the woods of America were full of whitetails in Kevlar vests. Now that the pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

First | Previous | 365 | 366 | 367 | 368 | 369 | 370 | 371 | 372 | 373 | 374 | 375 | 376 | 377 | 378 | 379 | 380 | 381 | 382 | 383 | 384 | 385 | Next | Last