Word: plainclothesman
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...came 80-year-old Kliment Voroshilov, who had publicly apologized for his "antiparty" misdeeds and apparently assumed all was forgiven. An armed guard barred his way. Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman. He then stood pathetically beside a white-smocked woman selling ice cream and watched somberly as Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky stood in the tonneau of an open Zil auto and took the roaring salute of the assembled soldiers. Old Comrad Voroshilov must have reflected how often he had played the very...
...Congolese troops hovered outside the U.N.-guarded embassy-residence of Ghanaian Chargé d'Affaires Nathaniel Welbeck, trying to get at the charge and make him fly out of the country. Watching the scene, Griggs and two other reporters were grabbed by a Congolese plainclothesman befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs's head, with orders to shoot...
...Chessman was-and is-arrogant, self-centered and pathologically egotistical. At San Quentin, he greeted one of his lawyers-who arrived an hour late for an appointment after winning another legal delay-with a snarling "Where have you been, you son of a bitch?" Said a former Los Angeles plainclothesman who got to know him well: "His ego is so apparent that it almost reaches out and grabs you by the throat...
...flashlight found in the grey Ford looked like one that the bandit had used. The prosecution produced a nut, found in Chessman's pocket when he was arrested, and charged that he had used it in attaching red cellophane to the spotlight on the car. A plainclothesman who had interrogated Chessman the day after his arrest testified that he made several statements linking him to the red-light crimes, including an admission that the 17-year-old girl was in his car. And most damaging of all, three victims, including the sexually maltreated woman and girl, unequivocally identified Chessman...
Terrified, the boy flung himself at the feet of a plainclothesman who had been grinning throughout the interrogation. "Don't let them!" cried the groveling boy. The plainclothesman watched laughing as the boy was put aboard a police truck...