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Despite the psychologists' exertions, the malady is utterly subjective and therefore unpredictable. One policeman will thrive in an assignment that may turn another into an alcoholic. In 1971 a Wall Street Journal survey found that the most physically draining and mentally numbing jobs were working at a foundry furnace, selling subway tokens, lifting lids on a steel-mill oven, and removing hair and fat from hog carcasses. Yet one worker took both pride and pleasure in the fact that he could clean a hog carcass in 45 seconds. Incidentally, it is also worth mentioning that being unemployed...
...following addressed you by name: Surf (the lifeguard), Hun (the policeman), Marvin (the village idiot), Red (of Red's Peach Stand...
...last time from Washington: "I will admit to you that the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you." Then he took a .22-cal. revolver and wounded Reagan, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, Washington Policeman Thomas Delahanty and Press Secretary James Brady, who two weeks ago underwent a fourth major operation...
...Moise was charged with the 1980 bombing of fuel storage tanks at South Africa's SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack ever staged in the country, with damage estimated at $7.2 million. Shabangu had thrown a grenade into the home of a black policeman in the sprawling black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Tsotsobe had been involved in an armed assault on a Johannesburg police station and in several bombings. As the authorities made clear during the trial, the three men were only part of an increasingly warlike campaign against the government: there have been...
...newspaper called a public forum in the park to discuss the issue. The main speaker, an attractive young woman, took the podium with breasts bare. Georg Schmidt, representative of the Munich police department, told a crowd of 2,000 that it would be "risky" to prosecute the nudists. "A policeman carrying off an unclad woman naturally would have to touch her naked body," Schmidt explained. "Inevitably this would expose him to the charge of indecent acts." The only solution to Munich's touchy situation seems to lie in the rains and chilling temperatures of fall...