Word: copped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, my boy," muttered the tired cop, "is it nine o'clock in New Haven or a ten in Cambridge...
...letter, Lyons wrote that it was "evident of itself how important" the case is, and he said that the killing of a reporter should be of as great importance as a cop-killing is to policemen...
...drab drama was relieved by a few comic touches-such as the Soviet sector police's fatuous pretense of defending the building. As some of the crowd began to push prematurely against the iron gates, one cop stubbornly stuck to the timetable given him in advance. With a meticulous obedience that was very German and very Communist at the same time, he said: "No, you finish singing the Internationale and then...
...gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist cop and the U.S. official were soon released; it looked like an exchange of war prisoners...
...graduated to the editorship of King Features Syndicate in Manhattan when a friendly Chicago cop telephoned him a mysterious summons in 1934. Lait rushed to Chicago and got his most famous scoop, standing a few feet away when G-men shot down Badman John Dillinger...