Word: lawmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...earnest gang of gun-wielding do-gooders closed in on the station wagon, its driver -- scruffy and overweight, with a menacing air -- lunged out the door. The lawmen forced him to the pavement, pointing their weapons at his head. Two young men shouted in unison, "Freeze! This...
...felons who menace the streets of Hogan's Alley are more polite than the hardened crack dealers, pimps and prostitutes that lawmen face in real life. Hired from a role-playing company called Day By Day Associates, these make- believe meanies are paid $8 an hour. The company's roster of 60 role players includes part-time students, the wives of Leathernecks stationed at the neighboring Marine Corps base at Quantico, retirees and off-duty firemen and policemen...
...disclosure forms a vacation trip to France paid for in part by a close friend. Though Dinkins provided plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani was behaving more like a prosecutor than a mayor. Giuliani fired back, "I think the people of this town want a mayor who has nothing to fear from a prosecutor...
...stage shouting, "Just say no to Atwater!" and "How far will Howard go for a buck?" The siege at the administration building followed on Monday. By Tuesday, police were ready to invade with tear gas and battering rams when Mayor Marion Barry arrived on the scene and ordered the lawmen to back...
...mean streets they are known as "strawberries," young women, usually prostitutes, who trade sex for drugs. Since August 1985 police have discovered the bodies of at least nine strawberries; each woman had been shot to death with a small-caliber handgun. Last week lawmen found a suspect in the serial killings. In a twist right out of a lurid TV movie, he turned out to be a sheriff's deputy...