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Word: copped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to make a cop lose his faith in the power and prerogatives of the uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...morning after that, Mrs. George Kronshein, night supervisor at Brooklyn's Harbor Hospital, telephoned the police. She said that a drunken copper had barged into the nurses' home, mauled her, and then staggered noisily into a women's ward. A patrol car arrived and took the cop away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Into the Jug. Then, one morning, an Associated Press photographer named Murray Becker arrived in the Mayor's office wearing a mouse under one eye and holding his press card like a hand grenade. He had been waved to the curb by a cop for blowing his horn too loudly in traffic. Becker, who was driving his wife home from the New York Yankees' victory dinner, had made an attempt to square things. He told the policeman: "Look, officer, I'm a working newspaperman. We were in a hurry. I'm sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...cop, he said, replied: "Oh, one of those wise guys that carry a pocketfull of passes and think they can get away with anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Then, he charged, the cop dragged him out of the car, took him to the nearest station (leaving his wife sitting in the car), belted him around the head, broke his glasses, and had him heaved, bleeding, into the cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: What Was a Cop to Think? | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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