When the police tried to subdue him, he took a swing at an officer. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A few days later, a longtime officer advised me never to show Holmes I was scared—of him or anything else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each inmate had an officer holding the chain of his cuffs and marching him back to my gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer told me I could make a phone call. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There, according to my classmate Buckner, who preceded her to the women’s prison, an older woman inmate was in the habit of bragging to officers about her daughter, the correction officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers and enlisted men in his command had identity for him only as military quantities. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Our training officer com- merited on the fame of the building, how corrections officials from around the world came to visit it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The immigration officer said, “What is your name?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The toilet-paper noose didn’t have anything to do with an officer’s laxity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she was not surprised when Major John André, an officer on Howe’s staff, ordered the Darragh family out of their home. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When they reached the door the officer stood aside while the soldiers battered the door with their muskets. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A political paper! Too bad the war will soon be over. The army could use soldiers like you. With your mind, you'd make a smashing officer. It's too bad you will have missed it." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt says he is a soldier, an officer—not a ship’s captain but a captain in the English military. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Pile a layer of Kotex above whatever you were trying to hide, the Island cousins once advised her, and the officers would shy from probing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was no evidence that the four officers in the Diallo case were bad people, or racists, or out to get Diallo. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don’t you fly the four more missions and see what happens ?” “I don’t want to.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some officers will let you go for 20 pesos. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The moment the officers began their pursuit of Prince Jones, his life was in danger. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My debt didn't vanish when the officers carted the silver filing cabinets away. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Little Johnny’s feet are sore after a long march and his commanding officer bawls him out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There’s no doubt that Soviet pilots, navigators, and commanding officers were privileged during the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Two are small prefab bunk rooms for officers and sergeants. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held down a great warren with the help of a handful of devoted officers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was the watch officer in charge of dispensing the pills to us, he had also been told to keep a very close eye on us Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“No, I can’t. I’d like to think I wouldn’t have, but it’s hard to say unless you’re in that situation, feeling what that officer is feeling—” “He pointed his gun at me,” I blurt out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why you’re here?” the officer asked at last. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I was on my way back to my cell, a very nervous white warder said that the commanding officer, Colonel Jacobs, had ordered me to hand over the kaross. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Lawrence Celestine had committed suicide on Friday, in front of another police officer. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was the distant sound of officers shouting orders on Broadway and the clatter of cart wheels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officers, I realize now, are here for crowd control. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Allies rounded up twenty-two top Nazi officers to stand trial at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Searching for a cure against the chill, he had the young officer who had proposed the murder of General Teófilo Vargas shot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Militsa was a career military officer like Marina, an Air Force Academy graduate who’d already taken part in several Moscow air shows and even had some training as an attack pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Under the whips and clubs of kapos and SS officers, we marched out through the front of Auschwitz. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

What were the reactions of my fellow officers? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers on the ground depended on them for support in case of a disturbance, and yards were a frequent site of trouble. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there watching for several minutes while more officers got involved in an increasingly elaborate effort to dislodge Joe's wheelchair from the tight cage. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, it was an officer’s fault: The gallery officer might have failed to find the inmate and then forgotten to follow up, or someone might have forgotten to notify the gallery officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third officer wore no insignia and lurked in silence off to the side. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Men ran or galloped to the White House, the War Department, and the homes of cabinet officers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny had been told off to carry letters for the British officers, to keep on good terms with their grooms and stable boys over at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, this isn’t a good night to be out”—the officer shifted his mouth around like he was chewing on the words some before he spat them out—“with their likes.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The officers were in the middle of excusing themselves from the table, buttoning up their coats and putting on their hats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, you take the Chief’s word. He’s lookin’ for a good first officer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The roads are packed with Dauntless soldiers, all marching at the same rhythm except the officers, who stand every few hundred yards, watching us walk by, or gathering in clusters to discuss something. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was easy enough to find out that spies had returned, were reporting to the commanding officer—but what had they reported? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I thought for an instant that maybe these weren't real police officers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

During the day he traveled the city with other police officers and National Guard troops, making rescues. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“There are liability issues, and actually, they’re unhappy that we can make arrests. But legally we can do almost as much as police officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he needed was a field officer who could lead a team of soldiers and civilians into the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer who had been in town all day moved up to him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an officer of the highly visible Corps, Butler was invited to talk about the organization around town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But soon Ahmad left college and enrolled in a naval officer’s training academy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“This is an evaluation from his commanding officer,” Georgia said, tapping the case. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But just as I lifted my sandwich and opened my mouth, an announcement came over the PA: “Gallery officers, secure your galleries and report to the flats. All gallery officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t the officer in Wallpost 17 stepped outside and fired a shot or two into the air? he wanted to know. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three more officers had just been put in with us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Another officer, Riordan, brought the matter up with me when we were near the center staircase during the morning count; no one could see or hear us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of three or four senior officers strolled by, to my relief—I was sure they’d been sent to help me usher in the stragglers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He agreed to confederation at Aburi, and now he wants one Nigeria with a unitary government, but a unitary government was the very reason that he and his people killed Igbo officers.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since the outset of their voyage through featureless ocean and anonymous ice pack, the officers and crew of Endurance had been able to track their exact location and chart their zigzagging progress on their maps. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One day we were working at the lime quarry when the commanding officer came to observe us, accompanied by a gendeman whom we at first did not recognize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one morning, a North Korean officer summoned Blake to accompany him to a village nearly an hour's walk away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The quiet complicity of minority officers in the War on Drugs serves to legitimate the system and insulate it from critique. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This uncomfortable fact creates strong incentives for minority officers to deny, to rationalize, or to be willingly blind to the role of law enforcement in creating a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She heard the police officers on the porch, with their heavy boots, and she heard them drive away. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and discovered a local police officer and a sheriff. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The officers had a spotlight attached to their vehicle, and they directed it at me sitting in my car. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sitting in chairs alongside the six psych-unit cells most days, twenty-four hours a day, were the officers assigned to two kinds of special watch: suicide watch and drug watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chief Heiserman made it a point to speak to the truant officer, who assured him that Cal not only had no record for playing hooky but actually was a very good student. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time you arrived, the officer who was headed home had lifted the hatch so you could climb in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were they bad people, or bad police officers? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The other two officers watch me closely, the picture of Mary and the Christ just behind them, while the boots make the ceiling creak over my head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Nothing at all. Now you run along and meet all the nice officers; the movers will be here soon and we have work to do.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was supposed to be with the Seventy-fifth’s program, but they needed officers here, so here I am.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven slash marks indicated his years of service - more than any presiding officer, including Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I tapped my fingertips nervously against the cup of coffee the officer had given me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The officers requested more coffee, lit their pipes, and unrolled their maps across the tablecloth, stained now with splashes of turtle soup, butter, wine, and candle wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was playing the Soviet officers like a careful hand of cards, not quite sure what might be dealt next. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Choker-girl, our dark and miserable morale officer, has learned to fake positive comments when under the captain’s glaring eye. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

At the Tapachula train station, fights break out between municipal and state police officers over who gets to rob a group of migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Gut aussehend,” one of the others translates, elbowing him again, and the officer’s face lights up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He pulled me up to the counter, squarely in front of the registration officers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We watched still-mounted camera footage of urine flying out of a cell and drenching an officer as he walked, unsuspecting, down a hallway. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this your uncle, kid?” the Navajo officer asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the bridge there were officers and carabinieri standing on both sides flashing lights. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His fellow officers were putting up crime scene tape. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“This is the Vilkas family,” she said to an officer holding a clipboard. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Normally an officer of his rank wouldn’t get involved in such a silly case, but the company building the pancake franchise had some clout with local politicians. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemingly the excitement among the officers, the preparations among the soldiers, had been noticed by at least a dozen others. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to shake off the dark feeling that the morning's events had conjured when the officers brought Walter into the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Agonizing second followed agonizing second as the officer seemed to ponder what to do with me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They finished loading the caskets, and the major drove his jeep around the front of the plane and signaled the officer with the new guys. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstate, an inmate who spoke a wrong word to a female officer quickly regretted it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Mac told the warder that he had his fingerprints on the pack of cigarettes and that if the old man did not cooperate, he would expose him to the commanding officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the channeling of stimulus dollars to law enforcement may help some police officers keep their jobs at a time when state and local budgets are being slashed, there is a cost. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention that the officer pointed his gun at me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Another officer walked out, carrying a swaddled bundle. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“One of our new pilots. He became mess officer while you were in the hospital this last time.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I rushed past a churchyard, where the security officers sometimes buried the bodies of old régime people. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Bull had promptly nicknamed him “White America,” an appellation that Brannon bristled at to the undiluted joy of his commanding officer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers’ club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The chief radio officer gave the wireless operator a command. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Three officers get out, two men and a woman. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do we expect minority officers, whose livelihood depends on the very departments charged with waging the war, to play the role of peacenik? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once the officer got in, the van began to move, backing down the driveway until it reached a space wide enough to turn around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her disdain did not convince Richard; it began when Madu complained that His Excellency had bypassed him and made his junior a commanding officer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The general, followed by other high-ranking officers, walked past the trailer, glancing quickly at the contents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The officer reached down and, with a quick turn of his wrist, the cuff on my left wrist opened up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"I wonder how many KGB officers lost their jobs," she mused to herself, "when they found no continuous record of what I had done since arriving in Moscow on November 5, 1975." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Who is the senior officer in this group?” the captain snapped. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Step aside," the officer instructs, and when she doesn't, he shoves past. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took a step back and, as soon as she did, the door swung open and the officers flooded into her home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Then get yourself a drink. Colonel Korn keeps some bourbon in his desk. You ought to try dropping around the officers’ club with us some evening just to have yourself a little fun. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The white hand of a uniformed officer reached out toward the car, opening the door and pulling me toward him as his urgent voice ordered us to hurry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a breakthrough on the right but some junior officers patched it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Causey was the commanding officer of squadron 234, which had the reputation and history of being one of the best F-8 squadrons in the Marine Corps for the past five years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They finally found the general and were sent by him to his signal officer, Lieutenant Hunt, who had also been cleared to know about the secret code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Please, sir,” begged Sergeant Towser, sighing wearily, with a sidelong glance at the four baffled new officers listening in mystified silence just outside the entrance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“There are eighty of you in the car,” the German officer added. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me stories of discontent in the camps, and of abuses by MK officers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, there were many officers’ clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Donald was walking home from the store one evening, hours after a mistrial was declared in the prosecution of a black man accused of shooting a white police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stopped to watch, as did the officer working the yard door and an-other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I spoke I tried to read the faces of the officers and others in the room, scanning them for sympathy or anger or derangement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t reappeared in a few hours, an officer would visit us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Attica and Clinton, he said, inmates didn’t even talk to female officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little embarrassed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few of the Roman campers hustled forward—apparently the senior officers. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the officer returned with Roberto following him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Shake it off, sailor,” said an officer from his cot. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Walking backwards, I see the color of the officer’s eyes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Zeitoun and the others entered the main room of the station, immediately fifty pairs of eyes, those of soldiers and police officers and military personnel, were upon them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then, as though it had been planned, the door to the room swung open slowly and a young officer hobbled in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the officer, his voice tired and uninterested, asking his obligatory questions. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the meeting was to begin, a police officer saw Walter and me outside the cinema talking with Father Huddleston, one of the leaders of the opposition to the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer finally agreed and told us we could leave on a voluntary basis. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

From the throng of officers came some questioning looks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When three white law-enforcement officers pulled up to the front of the church and attempted to enter it, shots were fired. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The time of the deed was also deliberate,” an investigator later noted, because it was done when officers “were all away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Lupita walked along, her footsteps guided by the flashlights of the officers on her left and right, Salvador whispered, “I was proud of you down there, Lupita.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He heard admiration voiced for a brilliant young officer named McClellan, who had been put in top command of the army in the East. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, the police, detectives, and officers had found a number of leads on Booth’s accomplices, but none led to Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed extraordinary to Turner that an officer should be addressed this way. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Russian spotted a police officer and, as quickly as he appeared, disappeared into the night, leaving the two Americans with the envelope, uncertain what to do. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of inmates and corrections officers died in the riot. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They were married officers at the same rank in a small corps, the Veterinary Corps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was likely enough that this rabbit had been an officer in an Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost overcome by their own mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, even though the Carthaginians had their own citizens as officers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She kept to her vow, and so long as the war went on she refused to serve Continental officers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to her house, at first with other officers from Camp Taylor, then alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I watched the duty officer straighten up and look at the next car, a brazen breeze picked up around us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The inmate said something else, and the officer spit in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier grabbed his Reb officer, grinning, by the arm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the mess hall another day that fall, I spoke with Brown, a young black woman officer from the Bronx whom I respected, about the same general conflict. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to the group behind us, which had grown to include a uniformed Secret Service officer in a white shirt and a black tie. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had just stuck the right key into the lock when the officers dis-appeared behind me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer approaches him like he’s a serial killer or something and slowly reaches into the pocket of Darren’s sport coat, which is now ripped at one shoulder. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

There was a crowd of people, mostly women and old men, standing in front of the desk officer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Here’s your briefcase,” the officer said; he handed it back to Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The brother, the eldest, is a Gestapo officer—an actual Frenchman who has been made an underling in the Ormaie Gestapo headquarters. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Federal Aviation Agency’s safety officer assured the public that “the planes are carefully supervised” and “are authorized to fly low.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And one month later, an officer of the bank was arrested for embezzlement. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Dade County zeroed in on improving what officers did before they encountered the suspect, the number of complaints against officers and the number of injuries to officers and civilians plummeted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Commanding officers do not usually pick up prisoners at the hospital, so my suspicions were immediately aroused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in a German officer’s uniform, but his Polish was very good, only a trace of an accent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Despite my questionable physical appearance, I charmed the immigration officer, answered a bunch of benign questions, and walked out knowing that I'd finally be getting a green card. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later that morning, at about eleven o’clock, the front gate swung open, revealing the commanding officer with two men in suits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it has to do with his father. You never really get over a thing like that. At any rate, the kid attacked two police officers over on Bryant Street earlier this afternoon.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The police officers extorted 20,000 pesos from the family to set them free. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

British officers were sleeping in chairs, on benches, on the floors, but he remembered that one of the tavern-keepers was a prominent Son of Liberty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer turned away from Kathy and ordered that the reporter be removed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Only the officer on the horse was moving. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The officers testified that the driver failed to use his turn signal and accelerated abruptly from a stop sign. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One day he asked whether I had any objection if he obtained permission from the commanding officer to be near me in the prison hospital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first I thought I’d been caught, but as the officer yammered on, I realized it was someone behind me who’d been spotted looking at the shank display. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael, and the goddesslike Special Operations officer who was there to oversee Queenie’s packing, and the RAF police sergeant, and the other agents who were flying out that night, watched with interest. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He gave it to a British intelligence officer, telling him that he had found the pouch lying on the road. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d told us that, about his father being proud of him being an officer, twice. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, half an hour late, an officer arrived—but, he was quick to explain, he wasn’t my relief, only an OJT. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, members of the core class could obtain jobs in government, the Korean Workers’ Party, officer ranks of the military, and the intelligence services. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But before I could move, an officer shouted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoner who had fought back crumpled to the ground, dead from a bullet to the brain, and the assaulted officer was hurried away from the assembly grounds. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are constantly scanning, never settling on any person or object for more than an instant, moving from an officer to the printout in front of him and back again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In military language, grandchildren, a “non-com” is a noncommissioned officer, anyone above the rank of a private, but no higher than a sergeant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a monotonous job, and Yossarian was disappointed to learn that the lives of enlisted men were only slightly more interesting than the lives of officers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Spanish officer picked up their logbook in one gloved hand, wheeled, and tossed it overboard. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Pagett is at the door with the officers, and after Mom reads the search warrant, she walks into the den and calls Dad and then our lawyer, Charles Clarke. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been the officer assigned to transport Avery to the hearing, which made me worried about how Avery might have been treated on the trip, but he had seemed his usual self. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A new page in the logbook began each of my shifts as a gallery officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another officer walked by and stared at us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The creek itself was viscous as phlegm, but its indentation marked the beginning of the brass curtain that separated the officers and their families from the enlisted men and their families. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a bit unusual; I frequently saw black and brown correctional officers at other prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, a gray uniform appeared among them, and an officer in his early thirties plodded up, stuck a key in the gate, and pulled it aside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, he was accompanied by a Yiddish-speaking officer who translated him word for word, even the simple questions. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The officer stands stiffly and speaks directly into the camera. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in face of her danger. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Councilman Kwang tells the officers on the scene—who arrive at the accident immediately and then in swarms—that he wasn’t even traveling very fast, maybe thirty-five miles per hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized Yossarian as the drunk who had accosted him roughly at the officers’ club one night before the first mission to Bologna, and he swung his displeasure prudently to Dunbar. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One of them came dose to the officer and looked up. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then the officers walked over to me, where I was still sitting on the ground, and asked me if I was okay. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Right, sir. What price?” the third officer asked. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Another trainer, Luther, told us he once stepped up to a fellow officer whom he had seen give an inmate five and then walk down the hallway, arms over shoulders, with him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers asked Shannon where I was, and she still wouldn’t tell them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As two officers flanked him, a third officer on the other side of the counter began to question him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

General Steyn and the commanding officer stood by her, but I did not mince words. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was Kaprice Wilson, and she was O High’s attendance compliance officer. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They all knew that he rode for the Observer—but they also knew that he often rode for their own officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer examined them one by one on the workbench and then he turned human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fathers hands clenched and unclenched, but behind the young officer we could see a squad of demon soldiers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Behind every successful Marine officer stands his loyal and uncomplaining wife,” Virgil joked. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll remind you, Bull, that you are an officer and a gentleman.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is one of the few high officers in that army not from Virginia. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was an unfortunate mistake,” Berendht continued, “and the officer responsible will have to submit to our rigorous internal review, as well as possibly face criminal charges.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing had between 700 and 750 “security employees” at a given time; 34 percent of these officers had less than a year on the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have learned that men in uniform, particularly officers, rarely descend to show discrimination, perhaps because of the integration of the armed forces. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that no one should need those kinds of credentials to complain about misconduct by police officers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each sentry could reach his neighbor in a matter of moments; and the appropriate stamping signal—for they had more than one—would bring out the officers and the reserves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother's staring straight ahead, probably looking to see if the police officer is coming back for her. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Any noncommissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, than they are to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smugglers secure her passage by bribing Mexican law enforcement officers all along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

None of the exposition directors or officers had any illusions, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mulch recognized it as his arresting officer from the Renaissance Masters smuggling case. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If the school’s security officer hadn’t come and carried me outside, I don’t know how long I would’ve stayed there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their cover was blown when an African-American woman who was waiting on them in a local tavern recognized one of the men as a British officer from Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers stacked it on the table in its own pile next to Nasser’s. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I look out of the corner of my eye when I hear a car whizzing past me, checking to make sure it's not the officers, the guys who took my mother away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain had stopped; a number of the group of officers noticed him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the visual customers—officers wanting food, ordinary soldiers wanting a chance to get warm, Redding people buying things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The English flight officer has studied the craft of the novel. She is making use of suspense and foreshadowing.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Dasch and Burger were assigned to the officers' quarters in the forward part of the submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You mean that old brown hat? Your grandfather’s hat? As far as I’m concerned, officer, you can keep it. And you!” she said to Clayton. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I was trailing some officers of the county sheriff as they made their rounds. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s a Lysander chalked up here with your name on it,” says her new Operations officer, pointing to the blackboard with its list of aircraft to be moved. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Four SS officers crowded into the front hall, then fanned out through the house. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Officer, this is a big misundersta—” he starts to say, but he doesn’t get to finish because the officer hits him in the face. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He shielded his eyes and, remembering what they’d taught him at the academy, shouted, “Police officer! Police officer!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fancy gold badge says she’s an officer and another thinner badge on the other side of her black tie says her name is Deborah Howard. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“While you’re gone, the augur is the senior officer. I will be in charge.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He knows that people are so discontent they are taking their anger out on the government officers’ families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He works hard, the priest says, to keep police officers on his side. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time I parked my car and entered the admissions officer's cubby, I was determined. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The officers at the table talk with indignation about other numbers: the Eighth and Fifth German Armies retreat north through Italy, the Tenth Army might be encircled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, about a half an hour later, the officers mounted their horses and began riding through the troops shouting orders. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Luther,” Bull said, suddenly serious, “I hope and pray I never start acting like a senior officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leader of the group is a young, dark-haired man dressed all in black, except for two rows of silver buttons that line his officer jacket. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

People were on their knees crying, tying erupting bags with twine while officers stepped on the contents. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Who better suited for such work than an idle Special Operations flight officer? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Stop resisting,” the officer warned as he cuffed my left wrist and roughly pinned down my flailing right arm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The police officer had lost her hat; her pants leg was dusty and torn. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Out of spite, she told the officers that he’d stolen a valuable toe ring from her jewelry box, and demanded that he be locked up in juvenile detention to teach him a lesson. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two SS officers with skulls on their caps hammered on Mrs. Pohler’s door, called her a stinking Jew, slapped her face, and removed the linen key from her shaking hands. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The officer asked me to climb into the back seat with Roberto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The officers take them to a cell filled with MS gangsters, then deport them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I look at her, she is young and crisp, spotless and neat, like everything here; a man cannot realize that it isn’t for officers only, and feels himself strange and in some way even alarmed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with two seven-year-old boys pleaded with the officer, telling him that she needed the money to feed her boys in Conakry. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain my anger, I recalled the encounter which had transpired by the officers’ pavilions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I was putting away my papers when another warrant officer came over and, pointing to my written statement, said, “Hand me that file.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I say there's a riot, there's a riot," the officer said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The observing officer was provided with latex gloves and a tongue depressor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they first arrived, the officers told us, inmates segregated here received no privileges beyond an hour of daily exercise—no reading or writing materials, no personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colonel Rondon was the superior officer of both the murderer and of all the other enlisted men and army officers on the expedition,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In his pockets the officer found $112, a bus ticket for Petersburg, Illinois, and documents that identified him as Thomas Dowell, an obscure local jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Goshawks are protected by law, too. Sean Conklin, the conservation officer, said all the birds of prey are protected under the International Migratory Bird Treaty. They belong to the world.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who told the officer that Bas had come to the navy so he didn't have to wait in order to be brave. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“What kind of grievance does your family have to risk an escape?” the officer asked. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer announced that the two visitors were a reporter and photographer from the Daily Telegraph in London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Mqhekezweni I had met many white traders and government officials, including magistrates and police officers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five seconds later, we strolled right past the police officers on their way up to Mr. Anderson’s classroom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After all these warnings, a training officer finished our second day with one more. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes rove upward and find the police officer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t dare stop to rest; all I could see in front of me was that Rebel officer pushing a sword through Father’s stomach. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghetto-reared officers from New York City surely knew the most. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer who killed Prince Jones, like all the officers who regard us so warily, was the sword of the American citizenry. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“His own mother doesn’t know where he is,” the other officer muttered. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One officer got angry when recruits started asking him for pens—few people had brought them, because we hadn’t been told to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the conflict we saw, of course, wasn’t only a fixed feature of prison life; it had roots in Sing Sing’s frequent changes of officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police officers surround every corner of the building, and there are even a few cruisers at both entrances to the parking lot. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was sallow and overweight and had a style of kvetching that got under the skin of many officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldier has to obey his commanding officer without questioning his orders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve read some myself out of pure curiosity and you can see why those officers are glad to be in Ireland after all they put up with in India and Africa and other desperate places. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge, a bold and dashing officer, would run what today would be called a department of military intelligence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felix motioned to a police officer waving kids off the sidewalk and into the park. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Abraham Lincoln had been shot in a theatre sixteen years before, no bodyguards or law enforcement officers accompanied Garfield when he left the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I feel bad for Miss Skeeter. I know she don’t want a go, but Miss Hilly tell her if she don’t, she lose her officer job.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These officers didn't care because it wouldn't be them Jawad Sahib would blame. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d paired up with two other veterans, both former military officers who had extensive political and military connections. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Take it off,” the officer shouted, “or you will not fly on any airplane leaving this airport.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Anticipating a huge turnout, the National Park Service had enlisted the help of some five hundred Washington police officers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The officer read the citations and explained that even though they were all misdemeanors, I had been processed and would still have to appear in court. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The two C.O.’s would begin the contest, followed by the squadron executive officers, then followed by the youngest lieutenant in each squadron. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if the officers were competent.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gonzales talked about how the system is supposed to work: police officers investigate, make arrests, and then hand the process over to the judicial system. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“A vicious and criminal thing! Major de Coverley is our squadron executive officer!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It had been more than three years since the arrests, but when Tate and the other officers started making threats of lynching, Walter was terrified. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even if General Washington was elsewhere, here I could find an officer who would understand the value of the list. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The occasional dissenter accuses me of betraying my fellow officers and being a rat, asserting that “what goes on in corrections should stay in corrections.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the second slap from the officer was not as loud as the first. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tells the officers that a dealer wanting money had threatened to kill Tania. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The police officer must have taken a shortcut because he's back in view, but nearly two blocks away. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were whole police squads whose only job was to go around peeking through windows—clearly an assignment for only the finest law enforcement officers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wondered if the officer had seen Beat Box disappear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I gasped and the officer whipped the flat side of the blade across Father’s face. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a gamble, and both of these brave officers know it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sam lifted the lid high enough to see not one but two police officers in the doorway. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

King reaches for his car door, but some of the officers draw their guns and order him and his boys to the ground. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For months the small city of Selma, Alabama, had been the scene of mass meetings, protest marches, arrests, and violent confrontations between black voting rights demonstrators and white law enforcement officers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as the officers allowed her to move forward. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Allen told the officer he wouldn’t take it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He heard a pistol shot—that would be an officer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far off at the other end of the platform, he saw the navy blue of an officer’s uniform. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The female officer begins nodding, showing support and almost enthusiasm as she says: "A counselor? So she heard?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now, though, rowing under gray skies, Germany easily cruised past the Czechs and the Australian police officers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Thousands of KGB officers descended on Moscow, backed by troops and tanks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When you arrived, you received no specific information about the inmate under observation—just the special-watch logbook, the only reading ma-terial the officer was allowed to have. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, remembering La Llorona’s words and the effect the ear pendant had on the duty officer at customs, I reached up to my left ear and flicked my index finger against the nestling orbs. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Did you witness any of the officers being under the influence of alcohol?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there SS officers sat apart, at their own tables, chatting, laughing, drinking French wine, and attacking beefsteaks or sauerbraten with knives and forks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Using J. T.’s franchise as a yardstick—3 officers and roughly 50 foot soldiers— there were some 5,300 other men working for those 120 bosses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The officers marched behind us, forcing us to keep pace with them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer then reached behind his desk and produced a sheaf of papers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Survivor cast doubts on fitness of crew but had nothing to say about officers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard Howe’s top officers discussing what sounded like a plan for a surprise attack on Washington’s army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fully eight months later, I was in a boatyard farther south in California, getting my bottom paint renewed, and there was a state or county peace officer in the same boatyard. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Knowing that if the police did chase us, they would probably chase the largest segment, I broke off and turned left, right into the arms of the first police officer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Thing is, as an officer of the law, don’t matter what I got on when it comes to doing my job.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A sign warned that all visitors were subject to search, but he just walked through the metal detector and went with the officer up to the second floor. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When the OIC called out, “Law library,” for example, I would check the sheet to see if anyone had put down law library when the officer doing the go-round came by his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice that none of the officers manning them seems too concerned when the squad cars pull up, which tells me he probably isn’t with them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And notice I said ‘correction officers,’ not prison guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena Feldt hid among the rocks above and watched as Mrs. Coulter spoke to the officer in charge, and as his men put up tents, made fires, boiled water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cell-extraction officers stood one in front of the other, the second and third holding on to the officer in front of him and the lead officer carrying a see-through riot shield. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His officers wrote of their regret that they had lost “such an excellent Commander, such a sincere Friend, and so affable a Companion.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Officer Jenkins, for taking the time to talk with us tonight. Let’s give the kind officer a round of applause,” Imam Malik says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The officer extends his hand as if he and Dad could be friends. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The officers there assume that all cops from New Orleans are corrupt, he said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One of the police officers snapped handcuffs on Bate. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Philip Caputo, the young lieutenant who had led his platoon on some of the earliest combat missions in Vietnam, walked into his executive officer’s tent at U.S. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The one place she could get a respite from the heat was the air-conditioned officers’ club. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“There was another man in the apartment,” the police officer said. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To test his theory, Ames prepared a document with the names of two Soviet intelligence officers who had approached the CIA to work as double agents for the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some officers could be bribed into leaving them alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had not our dire incentive for the success of that Regiment—a noncommissioned officer in a hated regiment in a precarious fastness only a few hundred feet from a growing and volatile enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m . . . I’m sure, ma’am,” the officer said hastily. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a very nice house you’ve got here. Too nice to belong to a lowly police officer. Your husband had money. So I’m sure there’s a car parked somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Diana’s husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

British intelligence officers knew about the Long Island spy traffic. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler guessed he had been a low ranking officer not long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I came to work prepared to do battle with inmates, not fellow officers, and I felt I wasn’t handling it quite right. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few officers from the city stuck around—Ellerbe, Foster, and Chavez—and I was glad for the familiar faces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him was the rather large figure of Colonel Knox and countless other officers I could not name. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner would an officer become savvy as to which rules were commonly ignored, however, than somebody in a white shirt would appear to shake up his whole understanding of accepted practice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another officer was already in the front seat. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Jamal said that all of the South Vietnamese officers were going home for the holidays. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” said an officer on the flats, who could see Henderson and knew he was supposed to be in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Agent Burger could recruit Morrison, though, he needed to find him: Morrison had fled Osage County after assaulting a local Prohibition officer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each week, he gives police officers who patrol the river a 10 percent cut of his earnings as a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were no trains to take us to Sachsenhausen, the watch officer told us, so we would walk. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir, it was a general named Curtis. He was the big one, I think, and under him was Sigel and lots of other officers—one of’em by the name of Jefferson Davis.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

If officers stood on the sidewalk as he walked by, he bowed ingratiatingly at them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There were police officers stationed on practically every corner, Coast Guard boats patrolling the lake, helicopters overhead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The red-dot officers were coming down the stairs with two inmates in handcuffs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though they had not a care in the world the British officers crowded into the Episcopal churches and army chaplains held services for the soldiers in the barracks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second officer checked his list, then shook his head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Actually, the officer, a young skinny guy in his early twenties, was more about making a buck than doing his job. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This “compartmenting,” as modern intelligence officers call it, can sometimes produce problems. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, in October 1941, she and a friend named Nina found the telephone number of a high-ranking air force officer at his Moscow headquarters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

His parents had a farm near Hays and his father was proud of him being an officer in the army. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious evidence that things were better here was the presence of longtime officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was at home, with my parents and a police officer, I suddenly felt scared. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The queen wants him, old man, not that it's your concern," the officer said, drawing a ribbon from his belt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One was a French officer, the other was a little man with enormous moustaches. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the fact that I was an experienced officer had a lot to do with my decision. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Get out of the way, kid,” says the officer, his hand on my back, pushing me forward faster. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At first, the evening news puzzled her, a litany of fires and shootings, because she was used to NTA news, where self-important army officers cut ribbons or gave speeches. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Secrecy was so critical, only the highest-ranking officers knew where the men were being sent. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The officers, in navy blue uniforms, walk straight up to him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The traffic became bumper to bumper, and the officers began to get frustrated. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are lots of girls in Rome. For an American officer, a girl should not be too difficult.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Birch dropped by, warning me that many sergeants objected to officers playing games with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police officers run into the church to arrest migrants hiding inside, sometimes with their guns drawn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Another officer pretended to give her a good spanking. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think a police officer will care about you ‘defending a friend’ when they toss you in jail for aggravated assault?” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The female officer did all the talking and she was touching her gun the whole time. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The traffic officer naturally got very much annoyed. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s unclear how Tate was able to persuade Holman’s warden to house two pretrial detainees on death row, although Tate knew people at the prison from his days as a probation officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I take this opportunity to congratulate officers and men of our armed forces for their gallantry and bravery, which have earned for them the admiration of the whole world. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was the rattle of drums, with the shouts of officers, and off the ships poured a flood, scarlet as a tide of blood. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way back to the office, I saw escort officers arriving on the gallery to do the count and go-rounds, and glanced at my own watch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching under the abandoned teacher’s desk he sat behind as presiding officer, Carter pulled out a small black box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father only came to the Clinic twice, citing business obligations, but from those two meetings it is apparent that he is a dominating presence, a “self-made” man and former naval officer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” the officer said, and let them go. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes peeled for flashing lights, fleets of runners, and blue-uniformed officers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t smile nice, shirk or back down, shake that officer’s hand like they were friends. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, some reporter hears the officer talking about it on the shortwave, or maybe it gets around the station. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen him before, but I certainly hadn’t met all the police officers at my dad’s station. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, knowing that these two police officers had not purposely hunted and arrested a man because he was Middle Eastern gave them some comfort. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The officers took their time getting there, but they finally arrived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A female officer in her fifties, wearing full camouflage, was glaring at them, and barking at the Dutch reporter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Clinton, in the Adirondacks, had 219 officers waiting to be transferred in; that translated to four or five years’ wait for officers like us, with no seniority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that it was all a test, that Wickersham would leave alone those officers who stood up to him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to check out Harvard but was disheartened when an admissions officer pointedly harassed her about her father’s politics, when all she wanted was to be taken on her own terms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Within the police department itself, white officers started a pool to see who could come closest to predicting the date on which the black leader would be killed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding a conductor’s baton and was surrounded by officers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer paused for a brief coughing spell. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That stage of Loomis’s life ended with World War I. At the age of twenty-nine, he enlisted in the officer’s corps, where his mathematical skills, honed at Yale, were promptly put to the test. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At the head stood an officer dispatching each horse with a shot to the head, and then moving on to the next. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She put up with the officers asking tongue-in-cheek questions about her procedures. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers were now screaming orders to the Moore brothers, telling them to get on the ground and keep their mouths shut. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred marchers headed downtown, through streets lined by glowering law enforcement officers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was the first commanding officer to spurn such a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judicial police officers ask the driver what he is carrying. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Despite what Roosevelt may have wanted, the responsibility of bringing justice for the crime fell on Rondon since he was the highest-ranking Brazilian military officer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Baba had nearly got­ten himself shot by a singing, stoned Roussi officer—Baba had made me so mad that night, so scared, and, ultimately, so proud. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They urged the Court to prohibit the police from stopping motorists for the purpose of drug investigations unless the officers actually had reason to believe a motorist was committing, or had committed, a drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All a police officer has to do in order to conduct a baseless drug investigation is ask to speak with someone and then get their “consent” to be searched. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I asked, as I watched the officer stare at my earlobe. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only a week before, the waterfront’s elegant open-air cafes had been filled with naval officers and diplomats; now the quay was a holding pen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The decision involved impersonating an Air Force officer. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped while the major talked to the officer leading them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were cooking purloined steaks and lobster we stole from the officer’s club and the mess hall,” said Kelley. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sam had a way to respond to people who called him Chief—as long as they weren’t superior officers who could bust him for insubordination. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir, ah, we seem to have upset Colonel Walton. He has just reminded me that he is the senior artillery officer in this Corps.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer came in and gave me an unnecessarily aggressive search before mumbling that I was clear. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Holly wouldn’t willingly give up her equipment; no LEP officer would. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

My second officer, as usual, had disappeared after doing his go-rounds, leaving me to move all these guys through the showers myself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Oakland police officer stood looking down on him, confusion twisting his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, in this dream the Nazis all looked like Darth Vader’s Imperial officers anyway, so it’s hard to put too much meaning into dreams. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The tavern had been taken over bodily by British officers, chief among whom was Colonel Francis Smith. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the officers who had strapped him into the chair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking, officers,” Mr. Lewis says, much softer than he was minutes ago. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A sergeant was leading a cart horse over the back of which was draped an officer, unconscious or dead, his feet and wrists secured by ropes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The police officers—two big guys in tall black boots—parked and followed her up onto the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of people going through, too—messengers going here and there and people moving to different towns and commissary officers and such. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie clutched hers tight in at the sides when the officer spoke to her, standing upright and hoping she looked smarter than she felt. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When I was commissioned, less than a year from that moment, I was told I was one of the youngest officers in the entire United States military. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Brenda Lewis was a former Montgomery police officer who joined us after seeing more abuses of power than she could tolerate at the police department. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Neat,” he said, and looked up at the conservation officer. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

By 2000, the DEA had directly trained more than 25,000 officers in forty-eight states in Pipeline tactics and helped to develop training programs for countless municipal and state law enforcement agencies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the false safety of numbers that gave the three officers the bravado to rush the car. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

From die social snubs of his commanding officers, he was picking up his hatred of Eastern liberals and the Ivy League at the same time as he was falling in love with Brooks Brothers clothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I looked on as church members put their strength together to become volunteer firemen, policemen, loan officers, and protectors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Two police officers were strolling toward them, a man and a woman on the beat, in their white summer shirtsleeves, with their radios and their batons and their suspicious eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A police officer was talking to Mrs. Kent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge shall not bury any colored persons upon ground usedfor the burial of white persons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Queenie, comfortable with and indeed accustomed to such attention from superior officers, stood up and let her coat be taken. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Conversations stopped when Rick and I entered a lunchroom, and officers in the parking lot stopped talking when we walked up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer was demoted, restored, then put out on the street to continue his work. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The hallway outside is empty, and I wonder where the officer and the nurse have gone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Indoors he was rigidly a British officer and a ‘gentleman’ and Johnny an inferior. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A British officer shouted, and the troops marched out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was greeted by Major Robert Furman, General Groves’s top intelligence officer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was he compiling new codes for Army use, he was also teaching cryptography to Army officers, as well as breaking ciphers and codes on demand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pictured the officers heading back for their own boat and crossing paths with us as they came. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The officer got up, went to a cubby, and returned with a plastic bag containing the book bag and the blues harp, which he placed on the desk. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He saw tents there, and military vehicles, and a dozen or so police officers and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Go out and see if the officers need anything. And bring me some more rum. I’m cold.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“La migra swept through the camp about an hour ago, and I didn’t know if the immigration officers searched your school too.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many Ulster Scots went on to become soldiers and officers of the regular army. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most jailhouse gossip quickly makes its way to the inmates, but officers were uniformly insistent about keeping them ignorant about the story of the Playhouse Four, as the group had come to be known. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you see a person in need of physical assistance, keep your place in line, and notify a police officer at the first opportunity. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

André finally admitted his identity, but insisted he was a combat officer, not a spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another day, I was working upstairs with an older officer named Robinson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been convicted of assaulting a police officer, information that would forever blemish her job applications, credit record, and school transcripts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Because when police officers are by themselves, they slow things down, and when they are with someone else, they speed things up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“How interesting. May I inquire: Is your father a police officer in our fair city?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mother grabbed the officer and began speaking in Russian—pure, fluent Russian. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As they waited for an officer to escort them home, Emily finally had a chance to ask Hollister why he was there. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

About twenty yards from our dug-out there is a small house that was used as an officers’ billet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One INS officer’s only job is to move the sensors to outsmart smugglers who try to plot their locations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For him, this question of control was a matter of considerable importance—as it would be for the many officers I’d come to know later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To become a high officer in the Sarf one must have, it seems, a certain complex form of stupidity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Above the din was heard the hysterical voice of an officer ordering them to surrender and come down single file with their hands on their heads. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer observing him called a nurse and the sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer handed him the gun: a cavalry revolver, Colt. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day when they anchored off Cadiz the health officers came aboard. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have had Italian officers visit me frequently and I have kept brandy to offer them.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only North Koreans considered trustworthy enough to become guards in political prison camps were men like An Myeong Chul, the son of a North Korean intelligence officer. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wore the dark blue coat of an officer, with buttons and buckles that reflected the firelight. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That may not sound like the job of an intelligence officer, but Boudinot could get information from his prisoners—deliberately or accidentally. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later two men walked in, handcuffed him, and led him before an officer who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer at the classification center had told me that if I could play ball I could always find a post to play for. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The SS officers were mad about that, but they yelled at the Czechs, not us Jews. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Looking somewhat like a British officers’ club, the Marshall was wood-paneled, with plush burgundy velvet curtains, several fireplaces, and oak tables fitted with brass lamps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The officer pointed his gun at Mother, signaling for her to be quiet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pepperhorn gestured to two of the Hill’s private security officers, who rushed over to put large iron cuffs on the Gran’s wrists. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The police officer motioned for me to go ahead, but I wasn’t talking to him. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

One morning there was a letter to be sent to a Washington cabinet officer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer parked the car in front of the school and asked me to wait for him while he went inside the administration building. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And it took three officers to hold him back. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The man in charge of our wagon called out to a German officer strolling down the platform, asking him to have the sick woman moved to a hospital car. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lewis starts to charge at King, and an officer has to hold him back. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We joined other new officers in the mess hall, where I held a tray and Bella stacked it high with Styrofoam “clamshells” full of beef stew and rice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, that is what we did, and we heard no more complaints from the commanding officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Felon Reproduction Program, some officers called it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was so proud of my brother on the day he was sworn in, standing there in the ranks of the new officers, straightshouldered in his navy blue uniform with its glittering brass buttons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The officers told Princesse that our dad had been in an accident. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When Michael and I drove up to the gate, we could see incarcerated women hovering outside the prison entrance with no officers in view. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Garfield's job was to make sure that Rosecrans’s orders were carried out by all the officers under the general’s command. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wagged my finger at him like a commanding officer. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see that both officers are instantly relieved. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

One officer took her shopping bag, the other picked up her purse, and they escorted her off the bus and into a patrol car. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

My probation officer thinks he’s slick; he swears he’s an expert on gangs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

That would mean taking several officers and a number of the Owsla. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay in line. Don’t wander off,” the officer said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One Army officer who later visited Riverbank thought the place was bugged—particularly the rooms where Elizebeth and William were working. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The camps were organized along military lines and often supervised by army officers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to talk about the operation with each other or with their officers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting with the Joint Chiefs was a young officer, Major Charles Cooper, holding a map of Vietnam mounted on a three-quarter-inch thick slab of plywood. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

An officer had detached himself from the group. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one single Congolese doctor or military officer, nothing, for the Belgians don’t allow them to get an education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would need mercenaries, so officers recruited men from militias made up of squatters from Kentucky. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

We had reached Alpha Company in the boonies and were sitting in the commanding officer’s hooch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, it scared me to hear Father yell at the Rebel officer. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twisted his body and tried to yank himself out of the officer’s grip, which loosened but didn’t let go. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Bother the Prime Minister!” exclaimed the superior officer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Later she caught a reference to a schoolmaster who was too strict, or perhaps it was an army officer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first major said angrily, “I must remind you, sir, that General Howard is die senior officer on die field.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the course of the litigation, the CHP produced data that showed African Americans were twice as likely, and Latinos three times as likely, to be stopped and searched by its officers as were whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The officer pulled his weapon and the two were grappling over the gun when it discharged, shooting the officer in the stomach. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And now the line has moved and I’m next, a small, new officer before the mighty sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure we’re all talking about the same aircraft?” the radio officer asked dubiously. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

By that time German officers and soldiers were fleeing, doing their utmost to avoid capture by the rapidly approaching Soviet army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Hide the clothes beneath a bush near the officers’ latrines, walk with him away from the camp once he’d changed, then wait with him at the platform until the train came. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But according to Miss Cissy, when the officer had Marquette get out of the car, that boy had no problem walking a straight line. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The hall was so cold, the presiding officer announced that men could keep their hats on. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Box officers joined us, and then two sergeants. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not here to see you, am I?” the other officer retorted. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice that Gerald had quietly opened Angel’s door or that two uniformed police officers were standing there until just before they grabbed him and handcuffed him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before joining regular officers in the lineup room, our group had a separate lineup at which we received our assignments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sorrel was the only other officer to hear the orders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night officer hands me the radio and some other keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation left me thinking about the many reasons that an officer might come to regard inmates as savages. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perot had routinely rubbed shoulders with the most powerful men in the world—presidents, senators, heads of state, chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned later that many of the enemy soldiers wanted to give up, but were too ashamed to surrender or too afraid of their officers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeants and junior officers might come around shouting and kicking the men into standing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At seven in the morning, when Colonel Gerineldo Márquez came to fetch him. in the company of a group of rebel officers, he found him more taciturn than ever, more pensive and solitary. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tom White had no formal training as a law-enforcement officer, and he struggled to master new scientific methods, such as decoding the mystifying whorls and loops of fingerprints. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Cameras had shown him throwing things at officers and egging on other inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said, do you want to become Moscow’s girlfriend?” barked the officer. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Never do the officers inform passengers that they are free to remain silent or to refuse to answer questions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some months later, I happened to be traveling in a car with a serving army officer of some seniority and Col. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the officer asks him where he’s been, he says he doesn’t know. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before I gave it to the officers, I took it out of the envelope and kept back the last page, where Nurse Evelyn had answered my words with her own. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He informed me that the commanding officer wanted to see me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its rider, a helmeted police officer with an unpleasant frown, growled at Marietta: “What business have you with these colored children in the city tonight?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As I ate, I read CPO Family, the magazine of the Correctional Peace Officers Foundation, a group that offered money and support to the families of slain correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer’s job was to insist—though, as a fallback position, an experienced officer might simply see whether the fourth inmate in line would take the seat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me later she laughed when the officers told her this news, she was so delirious with madness and disease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presumably, during the time I was holding him, another officer would be cutting him down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then police officers cleared a path for one of the city’s bright yellow streetcars, called grip-cars for the way their operators attached them to an ever-running cable under the street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Soon, more junior officers were permitted to take me around. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He acted like an officer, but he didn’t even have a single stripe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Except for Dieter, back at the Academy, my passage through the Department of Correctional Services had been blissfully free of anyone, officer or inmate, with the slightest interest about my background. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing the first officer says to the captain, just before the plane plunges into the Potomac River, is not a hint, a suggestion, or a command. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Get along with the topkick and avoid all officers when possible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the inmates are all locked in their cells, most of what is stressful in the life of a block officer goes away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, the officer saw that now there were two blacks seated in the disputed row. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The officer walks back to his patrol car. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Foolishly, I headed right past the police car; it took one of the officers seconds to wrap me up and throw me against his vehicle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They were allowed to pass because they could supply British officers with scarce goods. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For reasons lost to time, New York State correction officers are allowed to own and carry concealed weapons, and most seem to enjoy doing so. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning, when they were leaving Helsinki, he had lined up the plane on the wrong runway—and his first officer had quickly pointed out the error. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Before Wes could even react, a half dozen plainclothes officers were on top of him, the barrels of their guns trained on his head and the lights from their flashlights blinding him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

On the third day, the chief met with his officers. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One proposed that the officer simply divide the food evenly among the seventy-five inmates on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can carry her,” I said, but then I had to stop, because another Customs officer stepped right in front of me with his hand up. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then he came towards the table and stopped, standing to attention before me as though reporting to an officer in the army. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officers ordered them back into their cars, but not before placing handcuffs on one of the drivers because he didn’t have the proper registration for the rental car they were driving. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But he realized that he could not do this with all of his spies, so he put an army officer in charge of the civilian spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he telegraphed the chief of the city's police to send officers to the White House to protect it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the officers made notes on a clipboard. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In commercial airlines, captains and first officers split the flying duties equally. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He then asked that the health officer of the port and the port physician investigate the disorder and issue a report. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

‘Marcus’s mum is outside in a squad car, with another officer, waiting. She wanted you to hear his story too. When he’s done, we’ll take them home.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of seventy-four police officers, just the chief and two sergeants lived here. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There will be an investigation. Whoever did this, you cost the legion a good officer. Honorable death is one thing, but this... ” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He would just as soon have remained kicked out of the officers’ dub, had it not been for the pleasure he was now finding there with his new companions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I reached the two men, the commanding officer said bluntly, “Mandela, go back to your place. No one called you.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall seeing some late at night on the street with police officers and stopping to say, ‘Are you all right?” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that the orientation officer broke his ankle playing basketball.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled into the center booth and waited for the officer to come over to speak to us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are,” said the officer, “but that doesn’t give you the right to sell endangered species. Let’s go see the judge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Pardon me,” she said flatly to the officer before fixing her curls again and sliding her pearl hatpin into place. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The officer turns and seems to speak only to me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There were no such officers, and whenever I saw the police it meant that something had already gone wrong. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I knew that many officers, rather than plow through all this when their shift was over, would just drop the contraband in a trash can by the front gate and be done with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I started investigating the case, inmates at the jail told me they saw officers beating Mr. Ruffin before taking him to an isolation cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The other officers were amused at the baiting. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

An officer near him said, “General Lee, it’s Second Manassas all over again!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was to keep sharp track of Colonel Smith and the other officers of the Tenth Regiment who were living at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks I'd get a letter explaining that the police officers had done nothing wrong and that police work is very difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In some cases, maybe this led to officer and inmate being too close. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer stepped in front of me and blocked me from proceeding. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Me too, Scoob-a-doob. Those officers started asking questions, and I could tell they were suspicious. Jimmy wasn’t the only contraband I had on board.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Frank Zuccarini, an admissions officer, is standing in front of a table displaying literature for Rider University. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said every kind of bad word imaginable about officers, gentlemen, the war, the British, and the Congress, and he cursed himself for leaving his wife and farm in Maryland. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman again ordered him to leave, whereupon Wilton informed the officer he was one of the accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The three officers and the chaplain got out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There, an army officer at a roadblock stopped us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Whether I was an officer or inmate was unclear, but it suddenly dawned on me, as I sat in my cell, that I’d missed the twenty-four-hour deadline for appealing the charges against me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the police had easily caught up with the big thug, though he shook off two officers before eventually being tackled and handcuffed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers had no basis for suspecting Bostick of any criminal activity, but they got lucky. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the darkness he thought at first they were Hessians or British and identified himself as a British officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly veteran of the provincial forces in the late war recounted the peremptory cruelties and unmerited debaucheries of his officers in the King’s Army, sparing no cruel details of the lash and noose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, hello there,” said the officer when he came to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I told the police officers everything, including who had attacked me in the showers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The officer had been dressed like an undercover drug dealer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were superior orders that prohibited visits to prisoners condemned to death, but the officer assumed the responsibility of letting her have a fifteen-minute stay. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Gustloff will transport our wounded men, officers, and priority passengers whose identities l am helping to conceal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The officer wrinkled his nose and tucked the box beneath one arm. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He hath two drums now, one of his own making, and one issued by the Army, upon which he beats out the music and signals of the white men, our officers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Go pick up your regular duties,” the officer said to Horan. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“In its application the familiarity it causes with suffering destroys in the breast of the officer all sympathetic feeling”: The words of the Auburn physician seem to me to express a timeless principle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncertainty about what to expect ended when the officer reached above my head and began to pull my left arm behind my back. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, an officer inside pulled open the door to admit us to A-block and our first glimpse of the great cavern, so drab and yet so stunning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay here. Don’t go anywhere. I know the commanding officer. I’m going to go and talk to him. But you must stay here, okay?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

William had to work closely with officers who believed in these theories. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They will be left behind,” replied the officer. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like most officers, David Delinko thought the name change was pointless. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her officers were Japanese, her crew was Taiwanese, and she was large and impressive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who follows the news knows that you don’t have to look far to see correction officers at their worst. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of police officers watch us, and I wonder if they feel sad about the posters too or if they are angry at us for marching. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The officers took Beatrice home and offered to help find the mugger. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We were herded up a ramp into one of the train cars under the whips and clubs of the kapos and SS officers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

To let inmates know they’d better be dressed and decent, female officers always yelled, “Female on the gallery!” before setting out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing fresh,” says the officer I’m with, more to himself than in dismissal. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea was to get in among a completely fresh crowd, so that Turner’s sudden recovery did not attract the attention of an officer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mainly Academy stuff, in other words, along with what to do during a red dot emergency and the ways in which officers were made vulnerable by the antiquated configurations of Sing Sing’s exercise yards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer goes last, trying each of them in turn, and he speaks single words while he is on top of Jutta, his eyes open but not seeing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the difference between a truth and a lie?” the officer asked. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

British officers would not allow him a Bible or a visit from a clergyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

More officers started dribbling in; soon there were maybe a dozen, as well as the sergeant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other officers began stepping out into the dark of the moming. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So do you, you I said. “Take him back with the others,” the first officer said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On TV, there was a video loop of a school officer pulling a girl from her desk, slamming, dragging her across the floor. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This flat can stay,” the German officer said, pocketing my mother’s jewelry. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

An SS officer shot the man through the wall of the cattle car, and he no longer had to worry about not being able to breathe. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when I turned around, I realized that unless the Bannock Police Department hired hundred-year-old officers who got around with walkers, we were pretty safe. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In one, Marcus was wearing an orange jumpsuit with handcuffs holding his hands in front of him, and a police officer walked beside him. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Another officer had Nasser against the wall by the stairway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge gave a sign and the doors to the mess hall were thrown open, as a band marched into the cleaned out center of the hall playing the “Foreign Legion March.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What the hell are you doing here?” the officer barked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I don't know why exactly, but I started to hum it as I saw more uniformed officers enter the vestibule outside the visitation room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The rule is that they can’t be leaning against the bars of the cells,” the regular officer said to us, “and the cell gates are supposed to be closed.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been afraid of this. Zella brought me a copy of the Endangered Species Act not long ago. I should have told you about it, but I thought the conservation officer understood your needs.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty percent of the two hundred young men who were recruited with him as guards were also the sons of intelligence officers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m here with Mr. Cedric Lewis Jr., who witnessed the incident involving the officers today. Can you tell us what you saw, Mr. Lewis?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had seen this Psi Special Forces officer before—Sam called him the Grinch, because he looked like he had stepped straight out of the movie, save for no green skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The officer there kept asking if he was sure. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A group of men soon appeared, accompanied by several police officers with their batons drawn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Four other carabinieri stood near the questioning officers, leaning on their carbines. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought he might already have heard—I’d started telling officer friends—and I expected stony silence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the two Army officers appeared in space suits, the healthy monkeys went nuts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One rainy September afternoon I was the officer escorting four R-gallery porters back from the Laundry Building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was delighted when the lowly U.S. customs officers on the Manhattan dock failed to cringe at his aristocratic bearing and pedigree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He did not know Kainene had talked to him from Pakistan and did not remember her ever mentioning a friendship with an army officer whose first name and surname were the same. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wickersham may have had a procedural point to make, but humiliating the officer seemed to be a larger one. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer who’d picked them up on the river—a man named Winya, with a round belly and a thin mustache—had marched them through the quiet jasmine-lined walkways with hardly a word. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks, the officer felt like a “new man.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Apparently, when they mowed the relatively short stretch alongside the south wall of the prison, the regular officer didn’t object if those in the lead went ahead and kept on mowing around the corner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We approached the embarkation officer, the wandering boy between us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You must have been dreaming,” the officers insisted. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They bombed all four squadrons, the officers’ club and the Group Headquarters building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside the courtroom door they had placed a large metal detector, on the other side of which was an enormous German shepherd held back by a police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But being a good mess officer in wartime just isn’t enough, Colonel Cathcart.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I said move this pile back to where it was!” the SS officer yelled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said the police officer who came in with the ambulance told her that the car involved in the accident was a red Chevette. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One officer was able to search over three thousand bags in a nine-month period employing these techniques. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew now what the officers had gone up to Mr. Heron’s for: it wasn’t breakfast, it was to find out who the Rebel leaders were. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

True enough, although Johnny had not found out one thing of genuine value by the letter-carrying he had done for British officers, it had been a good contact and he needed money. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy, but I feel like she didn't mind our ride, even though she's supposed to be on the police officer's side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Butler seems to be cooperating with the officer, but as you can see, he is taken to the ground. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

These were the privileged passengers who would have priority boarding with the officers and wounded. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As is often the case, the correctional officer was fired but not criminally prosecuted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On our long hike up the stairs, minutes behind the regular officers, few of us had anything to say. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Osterveen suggested a second meeting to elect officers and to come up with a new name for the club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear sat at Craster's board, breaking his fast with the other officers on fried bread, bacon, and sheepgut sausage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was General Peckem’s opinion that all combat units in the theater should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Special Service Corps, of which General Peckem himself was the commanding officer. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of officers in the street and more standing behind the spectators. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, the only people left were my wife and I—and about a dozen officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer at the desk took us to a windowless room where we waited for a long time, far too hot, and I, for one, began to feel like a prisoner myself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The same day he was hired, Baba and I went to our eligibility officer in San Jose, Mrs. Dobbins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other officers pat his shoulder and tell him it’ll be okay. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The school resources officer goes to Logan’s seat and takes his arm. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

As a noncommissioned officer, Corbett exercised his own discretion and shot Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer entered a series of numbers into the computer, his face serious. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

All through the war, I did research in ship libraries and borrowed books from Marine officers who were history buffs and who liked the idea of an Indian being a historian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they spoke, the doors opened, and several officers issued forth, laughing and tripping down the steps. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, somewhat less than two hundred and fifty, sir, as of yesterday. Countin’ the officers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the inspecting officer took it in stride and when it was all over and he let it pass I think we all felt you were a nervy guy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to leave,” the UN officer said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tubby, loose figure of his superior officer stopped, turned and came trotting back down slowly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors had been forced to drop every case in which the officer was involved. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everything, as one officer notes, is as “still as the grave.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But if she hadn’t been such a cracking radio operator and been promoted so quickly, it’s not likely we’d have become friends even in wartime, because British officers don’t mingle with the Lower Ranks. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A tall officer was on the right side, in front of one of the metal detectors, telling each student what process they were to follow. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the seeds I purchased and some — for example, broccoli and carrots — were given to me by the commanding officer, Brigadier Munro, who was particularly fond of these vegetables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the officer opens the door to the ladder, stepping back and making a noise of disgust at the chickens. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My time with the officer had made me forget how impaired this man might be. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Much of our success and well-being as officers would depend upon how we carried ourselves and interacted with in-mates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy and Max, the same police officers who’d rescued the kittens just last week, climbed out of their patrol car to check me out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Your father will be one of the highest ranking officers on this air base. It simply means that we’ll have to wait for quarters to open up to move in.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the officer’s contempt is not, as in other armies, avuncular theatricality. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just to be sure, he feigned an excuse for the school police officer, who used to wrestle years ago and, as a result, liked Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What little scrap of audacity caught the attention of an army officer on the road? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued pulling on something in his pocket, and now he began to raise the black object in the direction of the officers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I asked if she expected that the police officer who had shot Prince would be charged. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As she came away, two young army officers, medics from the military hospital on Millbank, gave her a friendly smile as they brushed past her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The officer who responded had a reputation for being aggressive, and he forcefully removed George from the home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many girls are running after him, a decorated military officer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The gallery officer was standing just a few cells down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what Chervil had said, it was common enough for Efrafan officers to send for does. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she came back, a male officer with a chiseled face and a cleft in his chin accompanied her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I want your mother here this afternoon, and when your mother gets here, I will have a police officer here to take you straight to reform school!” she screamed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The X on this diagram indicates where Claudette was sitting on the Highland Gardens bus when she was arrested The officer ordered her to get up. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then there was the complicated matter of minority officers recognizing new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at the best of times, when one had all these documents, a police officer might harass you because one was missing a signature or had an incorrect date. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, an officer, serving my own page? I think not.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Reb officer stood alone for a moment, then waved again and withdrew. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I had the idea conservation officers were gentle people—not this one. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Box officers always acted as though their business was urgent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Verdict came back. They found that police officer not guilty.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jones, whose theory on triangular delta-shaped airplane wings would revolutionize the discipline, was walking through the streets of Hampton one evening when he came upon a group of Hampton police officers harassing a black man. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“The men rose, all together, like a piece of mechanism, kneeling on their right knees and their faces set with an expression that meant—everything,” a Confederate officer will write. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they drove away, the officer was still flogging the man. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took the uniform directly to Ben and told him to prepare it for use by the sharpest Marine officer in the Corps. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the cassette tape recorder that had been set up in the hallway and watched an officer bring over a tape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They’d imprisoned Police Chief Song and all his officers on the very first day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Others had been told by parole and probation officers that they could not vote, and although it was not true, they believed it, and the news spread like wildfire. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I look around, and there’s an SS officer with his cap pulled low, standing by himself across the street, collar turned up around his ears. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His head was lifted off the floor by his hair and a police officer shouted in his face. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Yossarian went to the officers’ club that night and stayed very late. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The officers rubbed their eyes, and Sam pushed up the lid of the wood box and stood up. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Somebody read Victor Hugo—believe it or not I have officers who read— and ever since then we’ve been Lee’s Miserables.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One conductor says the officers, fifteen at a time, stop the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“As a matter of fact, I have been going to the officers’ club the past few evenings.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The other officer was ready with his baton. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

His dark hair was washed and brushed, he was freshly shaved, and he wore the black breastplate of an officer of the City Watch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What if they won’t come back in?” one of our group asked the officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by nine-thirty in the morning all the armed units in the country were under the command of officers sympathetic to the coup. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had previously pointed out to the commanding officer that it did not make sense to permit us to read books but not permit us glasses to read them with. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guilty it is, then,” remarked the officer without insignia, and wrote a word on a page in the folder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

According to one story, at Howe’s headquarters she spotted a British officer who was a second cousin from Ireland. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immunity from civil liability given to prosecutors and judges is even greater than the protections provided to law enforcement officers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“When we tell you to open the door, open the door!” the German officer told the adults. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yoren slapped the rump of the officer's horse with the flat of his sword and sent him reeling off down the kingsroad. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In his drunkenness he tells the police officer the whole history of our coming to America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the start of this service, I was informed that, despite a credible eyewitness account, the police department has no intentions of arresting the officer who murdered this young man.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A female officer was removing stacks of American money from the bag. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At 5:30 the officer approaches our car and asks Dad for his driver’s license and registration. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

But the officers didn’t come into the tavern; instead, three or four of them rode up to Mr. Heron’s house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this last, an officer joked that the next fox would be a tall sort from Virginia, by the name of George Washington. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dug up the business card of one of the officers who had visited her after the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The officers who shot Fannie insisted she was leading a riot and that union sympathizers had attacked them with rocks and sticks. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer has folded his pad and put it in his pocket. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I take slow sips and look around Uncle Carlos’s desk to avoid the curious eyes of the officers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

John then cut off his buttons and handed them to Charles, who took out the bits of paper and translated the shorthand messages for intelligence officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer stood in the road, wearing a reflective vest. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

That SS officer in the muddy barrack must have been lying: Auschwitz was, after all, a convalescent home . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tsar’s conscription officers had come through months ago and taken inventory of every able-bodied man in the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

One of the officers escorted Mary out of the house and sat her on the stairs outside. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Women had no privacy in the bathrooms, where male officers could watch them use the toilet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At 5:34 Dad explains to the officer that his license is in his wallet, which is in his jacket at home. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

They assumed that he had been killed when the officers began shooting. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I stand there, his hands holding me up, as the other officer unlocks the police car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After falling apart, turning hysterical, when the officers first told her in the classroom at Utah State, she recovered her outward composure. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But a senior officer saw what was happening and came up to me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unaware that Salomon was a Son of Liberty, the British hired him to translate for officers handling Hessian troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Foaly. Don’t act so surprised. I have more successful recons under my belt than any officer in history. Plus I did my basic training in Ireland. Back in the top hat and shillelagh days.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sweep officers were generally keeplock or escort officers who otherwise would be idling near the front gate, waiting for their earliest chance to head down the hill. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ail around the building police officers with machine guns stood at attention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you excuse us for a moment?” she says, gesturing to the officer. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Still, there’s a difference between an education officer showing up with a group of armed men and carrying someone off, and their enrolling in a school on their own. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry we had that fist fight in the officers’ club, Yossarian.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She looked small and helpless between the two huge officers. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw the officer again; someone told me he quit not long after that last time I saw him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While it nibbled at the food one of them offered, the other officer tied its antlers to the fence with a leather strap. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Until they get where they really want to be, most correction officers will hit the road for home at the beginning of two days off, even if it means a six- or seven-hour drive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But as long as you drive the cars and behave ” “—and don’t talk so other officers can hear,” Manera finished. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In exchange for gasoline, Lima and other New Orleans police officers broke into convenience stores and took cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He looked like the typical SS officer: a cruel, though not unintelligent, face, complete with monocle. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, migrants and Grupo Beta Sur officers say, is the most dangerous spot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If I were an officer for them, on the other side, what would I be feeling now? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Balan,” said the peregrine, “it is rude to whisper. We will proceed to swear the new officer in. Now, padre, if you please.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke to a team of officers, who were doing some overtime, about relocating Folk to the Box. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer whose battalion included the 588th found out what was going on by a chance comment from his driver. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If a large contingent of inmates was being moved, even more officers went along. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a cold or rainy day, the gym could fill with upward of four hundred inmates, and there were moments when I would be the only officer there with them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer had thinning brown hair and pale skin and looked to be in his late fifties. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The officer let me cry for a few seconds. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

After that day when the police officers came to the door, Chess remembered lots and lots of nights when he woke up and heard Mom crying. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A few of the officers dawdled after their lesson, enjoying Mr. Turner's foining and the free exchange of youthful braggadocio. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Now she recognized the officer: it was one of the squadron leaders. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A single officer—even a single officer in the heat of the chase—would have had to pause and wait for backup. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. He started asking but didn’t finish because the officer shot him in the back.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Drivers say it is enough to worry about officers planting drugs on their trucks and demanding bribes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Deep Lake, Sable Hall, and the Long Barrow. All garrisoned with free folk, under the command of our own officers. The Long Barrow will be all women, aside from the commander and chief steward.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Many officers were aggrieved by Wickersham, and I was delighted when one of my favorites, Goldman, from B-block, joined the club. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twenty minutes, we remained in our places, the officers walking among us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The officer looked past him to the group of painted boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Doc’s captain once said, “An officer who hunts desperate criminals has no business having a wife and family.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t yard officers on his shift have more than one radio among them? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He wanted to be a police officer when he grew up." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Bert and his parents reached the front of the line, an officer questioned them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the family was to go to bed early so that no one would be around when the officers met. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how that matters one way or the other,” the officer answered nonchalantly, and reached sideways again toward the open folder filled with papers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Even the best officers, he said, had to scramble around to put out fires; it was just a question of degrees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had an understanding with a handful of African officers who were members of the security police that they would inform us when there was going to be a police raid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. I may outrank you, sir, but you’re still my commanding officer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about it. Or more to the point, you tell those cheapskates down at the First Illinois about it. These are my men I’m putting on the line, officer. Good men. Men like you.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Behind the closed and guarded doors of the SR offices, an SR officer deciphered the message by hand, using a one-time pad. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In minutes, he will jump off to again try to outrun law enforcement officers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The officer was a white man about my height. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While radar stops were relatively consistent with the percentage of minority violators, discretionary stops made by officers involved in drug interdiction resulted in double the number of stops of minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was not eligible for officer training, which was as well, for sooner or later he would have met someone in an officers' mess who knew about his past. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Colonel Smith’s early call for reserves evidently had not upset the commanding officer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another officer must have remarked on it to him, she wrote, because when she came back on duty, the next day he was “irate” that she had written it down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other officers were beaten and held hostage as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My last few steps put me in front of the German officer in charge of the transfer. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Police officers strung ropes to keep back the crowd who came to the area to see Garfield off. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wrestled it from the shocked officer’s hands and struck him with it in the head, knocking his Nazi hat into the muck, striking his raised arms again and again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I went to Delhi to find out if the conservation officer was named Leon Longbridge, but I didn’t think to look at him. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the men in the hallway; they had clearly been expecting the officer to do something more decisive and effective. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer told them to go after the NVA soldier. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was listening the next day when other officers asked him how it went. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no rule against it, but what favors was the officer passing back in the inmate’s direction? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People stared at the destruction, and one group was loudly confronting a police officer who was trying to make sure no one got killed by falling branches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The officer whistled to a nearby sentry and motioned him over. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I can drive Maya and Sofia, and they can wait with me in the car until the officers give us the all clear,” Violet offers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The police officers were hacking their way into the house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rezident of the Soviet embassy in Washington approached Victor Cherkashin, a veteran KGB officer and spy handler, as soon as Cherkashin stepped out of his car in the compound's secure parking lot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a lot of questions, all that I say to the officers is: "I have one grandma who thinks every day is Tuesday." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Why can’t the officer stand and talk to me face-to-face, like a normal human being? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But, according to a newly discovered account, Hale was tricked and seized by Major Robert Rogers, a bold British officer known for his cunning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Army also endorsed eugenics, making it part of the official curriculum for Army officers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A fellow police officer, who asked to remain anonymous, claims the indictment is nothing more than a publicity stunt at Tison's expense. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I direct these observations to officers and tycoons, also. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I got to know some of the more senior officers better, most of them in B-block, where, shortly, I would be spending a lot of time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the officer is watching us or calling in backup. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Rumors about the war, rumors about upcoming “selections,” when SS officers would weed out the weakest prisoners and ship them off somewhere. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The officer on duty looked like he was experiencing a bit of chronometric distortion himself. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He told her that he didn’t have enough police officers to cover two parades, back-to-back, and that the president’s event took precedence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Milton wore them whenever he met with bank loan officers or auditors from the IRS. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the officer was only interested in the chamberpots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

An officer wanted to start an investigation and somebody else wanted to frag the cooks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer in front swung his head around swiftly with a quarrelsome expression. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The officer grabbed the man from the bank, stuck a rifle in his back and began to march him away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

First of all, the officer is shining his flashlight on my lap, so he can see where my hands are and whether I’m going for a gun. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I spent two shifts and some overtime watching an inmate from Tappan who an officer had seen swallowing something white during a routine pat-frisk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I dropped your bag, but the police officer picked it up. I wanted to give it back to you. Your phone's in there." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We know that his superiors sent this officer to follow Prince from Maryland, through Washington, D.C., and into Virginia, where the officer shot Prince several times. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Shoot him if he resists,” an officer said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now, however, though the code of silence is still nominally in place, inmate lips seem looser and officers’ use of snitches more widespread. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he assured Paul that there would be 575 police officers on patrol during the parade, significantly more than the 367 that would be working on the day of the presidential inauguration. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I dressed quickly and found Head Constable Rousseau, a security officer who was a familiar figure in our area, and two policemen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transaction did occur, which meant that the officer had agreed to the terms. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Pickett suggested with authority that it was growing quite late and that his officers should get back to their separate commands. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers promised to search the river for Imogen’s body, but they also noted that if her body was weighted with stones, it wouldn’t surface easily. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The SS officers laughed at them and hit them with clubs while the Jews scrambled in the mud for their dinner. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking any help, I had to escort him to the north gate personally and get the attention of officers on the mess-hall bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police station was in full alarm, with officers and soldiers rushing in and out of the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Their point is particularly relevant to the predicament of minority police officers charged with waging the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were BladeGuard officers in the next room, and she could see even more on the porch through the front window. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now I can see that at each ruined desalination machine stands a police officer in riot gear with an automatic rifle, warning people to keep away—as if there’s still something to protect. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Gonzales had been a police officer for twenty-one years when, in August of 2005, his captain suggested that they send a team to New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They said that at some prisons upstate, guys with seniority wanted to be gallery officers, that the galleries were small and tightly run and relatively peaceful. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seem to be lost, officer. I wonder if you could direct me?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the wallpost matter was also complicated, and criticizing that officer was something they weren’t sure they wanted to do. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s officers dragged the bodies to a car, Fannie by her feet and Joseph Starzeleski by his collar, and stacked them into the trunk to haul them away. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

An officer could walk around with their eyes shut over there and never miss a thing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He went to inconceivable extremes of cruelty to put down the rebellion of his own officers, who resisted and called for victory, and he finally relied on enemy forces to make them submit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Auguste was a thin black man who greeted every officer that passed, no matter what time of day, with “Top of the morning to you, sir!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers’ family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was divorced, with a son he was putting through college, because, as he put it, “Officer after officer will tell you: There’s no way in hell you’d want your kid to be a CO.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the lone officer, much closer now, sitting regally on horseback, outlined against a darkening sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed the officer that he was not drunk. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was largely because of his habit of marching troops all over the Shenandoah Valley in an illogical and inexplicable fashion that Jackson earned a reputation among bewildered enemy officers for wiliness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Two counts of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were men running everywhere, and horses being saddled, and officers shouting. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are at least four columns filled with bank managers, accountants, loan officers, cotton collate operators. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“May I speak to you?” thunders an officer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, the officer and the mayor’s driver discuss the new dead migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But on another, by keeping new officers on their toes and keeping the blocks running according to the rules—by being a force for consistency—Wickersham may have been insuring himself against repeating the experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I repeat the officer’s words, not really believing them. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt turned a corner and saw a female police officer helping an injured man in a suit limp down the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m supposed to be in Danbury buying cattle. They sent me down from Cambridge with Captain Champion, the commissary officer because I’m from around here.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many sergeants and officers, and certainly most inmates, were glad she was going. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer holding me asked me for my driver's license but wouldn't let me move my arms to retrieve it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As windy as he was vast, he began by asking Winterfell to confirm the new customs officers he had appointed for White Harbor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The threat of violence didn’t just come from law enforcement officers, marchers were told; waiting for them downtown were members of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But then the trains had come, and the SS officer had laughed when Max tried to bring his parents tea. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That left me standing alone in the middle of the burning gymnasium when the headmaster came charging in with half the faculty and a couple of police officers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going the wrong way! The police have officers all over 8th Street! Go back the other way!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With the color in the officer’s cheeks rising, he looked like I had insulted him personally. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Close on the heels of the marching men was an old chaise containing their commanding officer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goldman told Wickersham where he thought the alarm had come from, which officers had been involved, and who had responded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maiwee! Did you have to call him a truant officer?” said Eye. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The police cars and officers manning the roadblocks were clearly visible. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Handcuffing the man who fled was not a straightforward matter, and apparently, as the officers worked to subdue him, in-mates gathered around to complain that the officers were being too rough. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among Korean Air flight crews, the expectation on layovers used to be that the junior officers would attend to the captain to the point of making him dinner or purchasing him gifts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was sent from lineup one day to work with a transportation officer named Billings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather was a military officer, Colonel. A major. He died for the Gray at Antietam.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest have locks on them, some very ancient indeed, belonging to officers who quit or transferred or died or who knows what. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor replied that they were, but that the case was over, court was no longer in session, and the only authority in the room was that of the warrant officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baywatch wouldn’t talk to officers, but his presence was widely accepted by inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What brigade are you?” an officer called out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lydia Darragh tells an American officer what she heard while eavesdropping on a British meeting in her home. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another good reason was the fact that having the chaplain around Headquarters all the time made the other officers uncomfortable. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But before I got to eat my breakfast, I saw what looked like about a hundred police officers, park rangers, and school staff, all gathered around the front gates to the school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before then, Reggie would meet with a probation officer who would help suggest a sentence to the judge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The doors shut right in front of him, and Sergio was alone on the platform with what, he then realized, must be a plainclothes officer. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Uhura, a black woman and proud citizen of the United States of Africa, served as the Enterprise’s communications officer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I can not shoulder the responsibility of electing officers who publicly repudiate the principles of the society,” Foster said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was an ambitious and humorless Lieutenant Scheisskopf, who confronted his responsibilities soberly and smiled only when some rival officer at the Santa Ana Army Air Force Base came down with a lingering disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Did you know in Cleveland, Tamir Rice also died because officers thought his toy was real?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He padded through the doors like a sleepwalker, in his stocking feet, a court officer following close behind him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spy a couple of police officers standing in the street, right by the curb. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While the officer was gone, Dowell slipped his belt off, coiled it around his neck, and hanged himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The visitation officer came up to me after I had escorted the family out and whispered in my ear, “Thank you.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ajax and the other men asked the officer why Tar Baby couldn’t have back his clothes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That officer wasn’t allowed to leave the bubble before a relief officer came in. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been emboldened by this case, so when Bogart asked for help I immediately demanded to see the commanding officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman police officer, in uniform, came into the room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young officer, a trim black- uniformed figure who seemed to glitter all over with polished leather and whose pale, straight-featured face was like a wax mask, stepped smartly through the doorway. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was five years older than Longstreet, and now he was the junior officer, but he was one of the rare ones who was genuinely glad to see another man advance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Bugloss, the officer responsible, had, of course, been demoted and expelled from the Owsla, but his disgrace, though very proper, only added to the General’s difficulties. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, a classmate who would spend a week working with that officer told me how every morning an inmate would fix him his coffee, passing the mug out through the bars of his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were executing officers of the rank of major and above who were separated from their troops. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

An officer is positioned on top, wearing a vest and a helmet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Leave the girl’s room!” the first officer barked. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

William suspected that his own Jewish background made officers like Strong treat him differently. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At seven p.m., the captain, his first officer, and the flight engineer met and collected the trip’s paperwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Patria had answered the door and told the officers that her husband and son were away in the capital, but the SIM overran the place anyway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, up the tunnel from B-block, a long succession of officers and handcuffed inmates came into view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert saw the officers lining up outside, and he pulled away from her slowly and told me to take her out of the room. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They came on, and then they were swirling by, an officer wearing a sword in the lead, followed by the ordinary soldiers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dakota and Gwen walked back from the officers’ conference, looking grim. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Truant officers and their sniffer dogs'd be put on my trail. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two different officers, overcome by the storm and its aftermath, had taken their own lives. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

‘Well, better report to the medical officers. They are using that house as a temporary hospital.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer who headed to the bank now jogs back. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Police were waiting to lead them from the car through a passageway that other officers kept open in the dense crowd. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I could offer them good prices for liquor because we could get good prices for it: the officers didn’t care how much they paid for liquor. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked the Visit Room with Colton, wearing the dress blues that officers had to put on for any post that brought them into contact with the general public. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no ghostly regiment, responded to those orders; just the gray stone, the blue mist, and an officer alone, hanger raised, bawling formations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One of the officers who left Philadelphia when the British pulled out of the city in June 1778 was Major André. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand back,” one of the police officers barked. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were small gray motor cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back seat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A former navy officer was working on his B.S. degree in special education when he saw Luke’s listing on Florida’s adoption website. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Finding neither, they are angry and take it out on all officers in the government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands with the men—they must be some kind of police officers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As the girls struggled to answer all the questions of the smiling police officer, Jinjoo knew why she didn’t like him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had not been in my cell long when I was visited by the commanding officer and a number of other prison officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, officers. We were just having a little fun out here.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Reflecting the demographic makeup of the state’s small towns, the officer corps is overwhelmingly white. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

SS guards, as frightening as the officer who had recently grunted me into the Schindler group, stood sentry at the entrance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The driver snapped the reins and the modest parade, escorted by a small group of bareheaded officers on foot, took Abraham Lincoln to the White House. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the beaming officer thanked her beaming parents while Eberechi stood by. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Standing for a long moment, hands behind his back, the officer silently surveyed them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to send another message to those police officers.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Let me see . ..” An officer grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, spinning him around. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Seeing the cavalry, Confederate officers call an immediate retreat. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I entered the prison and saw an older white woman—the correctional officer who managed the visitation yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

‘Out in Lexington they are telling us, “Pick off the officers first, then the sergeants.” Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxious to make the deal, Arnold insisted on a personal meeting with André—a very dangerous move, especially for the case officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure most parade watchers didn’t notice, but I was also surrounded by undercover police officers for the whole day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He watched as Reg tried to lift himself up, but there was an officer’s knee in Reg’s back keeping him down and the sound of a crack against the ground. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

From miles away comes the thunder of big guns, and still the German transport trains are being hit, bending tracks and flipping cattle cars and maiming the fuhrer’s soldiers and filling his officers with fury. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could see Ned swivel away from the window where he crouched, attempting to swing his rifle around to get in a shot at the officer. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad the officers weren’t looking at me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“If they find him wandering around and discover he is the son of an officer—” said Mrs. Arvydas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“And if you and your fluorescent uniform don’t get out of my way, I’ll yank your operating license and have you thrown into the cells for obstructing an LEP officer.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The officers in charge of all three mints. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me ask you something,” she said, directing her attention to the officer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the officer’s lack of concern cut him to the quick. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, every officer and patrolman was assigned to work a twelve-hour shift. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A police officer asked where our license plate was. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Ah, ease up a little,” Chilmark, the officer in charge, counseled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to see that the officer has moved everyone much farther away from the neon tape. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It came about that he was consulted in matters of army organization, in officer relationships, in personnel and equipment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw him as a “conscientious officer” who was in desperate need of help, and she listened to what he had to say. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were now three rat officers on the list of the dead. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After the Revolution, in a time of epidemics, he was chosen health officer of Boston, and coroner of Suffolk County. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting in this tiger’s lair for Maddie was our dear friend the English intelligence officer with the pseudonym. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

To visit the burrows of another Mark was not allowed without an officer’s permission. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waffle day\\ The news was passed to the knot of officers outside the mess hall by one who worked in the kitchen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you do a quick computer check for a John Doe at the adult detention center?” the officer asked. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Newer maximums and mediums and many older ones have ceiling-mounted chemical agent dispensers in case of riot, and often an officer in an observation booth who can activate them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing any better, police officers had led her out of the crowd toward Mullet Fingers, spooking the bold little owl away from the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfons couldn’t believe the officer’s audacity to call Adolf Hitler a mass murderer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the rows of officers lined up behind the gallows, looking for Colonel Regan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she clipped on my microphone, the head librarian told me that some of the officers had arrived two hours early. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just lied to officers of the law,” she says. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The goal of a foot soldier was to someday become an officer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Three men, who said they had been wounded by the Deputies’ fire, testified that there had been no attack on the officers and that there was no occasion for shooting. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Von Linden is about the same age as the intelligence officer who recruited me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Back in Congo, police officers and military officers were basically the same—and they came when there was war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Clayton gave the officer a nod and followed his mother out of the police station. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Civic leaders held press conferences praising the work of the police officers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I imagined the school truancy officers—Recruiters, we called them—coming for us, noses to the wind, sunglasses reflecting the row of houses behind which we were nestled in our wooden dream home. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“We have to go on. In a little while you will be cut off. You can’t order us. You’re not our officer.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was so much fun trying to trick our watch officer that before long all the other Navajos were doing what I did and not taking their Atabrine. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer didn't realize that Guiteau was the shooter, but others did. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Get in,” the officers yell, pointing to their squad car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Colonel Batt was a retired Army officer with twenty-six years in the service. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The train yard swarmed with vehicles, officers, and people with luggage. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Guilty it is, then,” chanted the officer without insignia, and moved off to the side of the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have nothing against Mr. Fazio, but he just let the officers take my mother away, and I don't know what he's going to do if he finds me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The junior officers cleared out their cots, clothing, and maps from the second-floor drawing room so we could scrub and polish it from ceiling to floor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of my colleagues whispered to me that it was Brigadier Aucamp from the Head Office, our commanding officer’s commanding officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the officers agreed that it had not yet come to that. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The German intelligence officer laughed when he said, "The trigger finger of the executing officers became tired." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By sunset the beach was pretty much deserted, and the riot officers who were left behind were firing warning shots at anyone who dared to come close to the ruined machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But despite the officer’s rank and experience, Alfons refused to believe that the Nazis would systematically murder people, and he told him so. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The commander stood on the porch with an officer I didn’t recognize. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“They were thieves and they went to Beaver Corners, not far from here. The conservation officer arrested them this morning.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work of an environmental conservation officer is serious. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranks of folding wooden chairs have been placed along the right side, for the Wives and daughters of high-ranking officials or officers, there’s not that much difference. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fyfe once ran a project in Dade County, Florida, where there was an unusually high number of violent incidents between police officers and civilians. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But I was depressed by what it represented—the hours measured, the boredom of inmates and irritation of officers, the ticking of the clock, the niggling accountability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A police officer—not the one who did this to me, but a different one, the one who fingerprinted me—stood outside the hospital room on guard, making sure I didn’t run. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The officer had closed the back door when Nathan finally reached the police car. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had long been a probation and parole officer for the Utah Department of Corrections. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would have worn the silver wolf’s head that marked an officer of the drüskelle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I talked that officer into signing him up. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The police officers, with Dell Duke at their jutting elbows, make phone calls. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The bride’s father was an air vice marshal, it was rumored that the Head of State might attend, and Aunty Uju joked about asking him to make her medical officer at Aso Rock. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With a seasoned officer named Martinez, I spent the next day on guard at the foot of the tunnel leading up from Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an effort to impress his latest parole officer, Richie was trying to improve his vocabulary. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, an officer and two other warders appeared and I did not even have time to slide the paper under my bed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Escort officer was, actually, a bit of a misnomer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Colonel Regan is the officer in charge. He could send you back to Rhode Island, maybe, help you find that lawyer and his papers.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks before, as an escort officer, I had taken the kid to the ER for the exact same complaint. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, Johnny met officers yelling at their men, trying to get them back into their barracks, striking at them even with the flat of their swords. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Officer Lopez will get them for you,” Special Agent Gonzales said, and the young officer left the room in a hurry. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The police officer beams his flashlight into car, making me squint for a second. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The police officer looks at the ID card and then at Chantal and back at the card. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the black officers who were compromised. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cilia collected a basketful of notes that the British officers had written Miss Lavinia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wickersham’s sworn mission, as any new officer knew, was to give new officers a hard time—to ride them, chew them out, dress them down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come in, come in,” the officer said, pulling open the shack’s door. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want to believe that officer is going to be found innocent, but I can tell Momma and Daddy are both thinking that’s the way it’s going to go. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Emma hoped it looked more like a hug than a tackle to the police officers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Armpit jerked himself free, but the other officer grabbed him. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Tut tut, officer striking an enlisted creature! Bad form, old chap, thumping bad form!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I let him into the shower, allowed two officers and an inmate through the center gate, and then returned to the task of trying to clear W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers of the other five planes in each flight arrived in trucks for the general briefing that took place thirty minutes later. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We know that the officer claims he shot because Prince tried to run him over with his jeep. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she began calling everyone she could think of—Richard’s father, his probation officer, the police station. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The estate agent told her that an army officer had lived there during General Abacha’s regime; now the house was tied up in court. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I look around for him and see instead a female officer approaching me with her gun out. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Shadrach, the runaway slave, was outside the courthouse before the police officers, who were guarding him, were aware that they had just watched an impromptu and wonderfully effective rescue party at work. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had also learned from a newspaper clipping that a Special Branch officer broke into our Orlando house while Winnie was dressing and she reacted angrily, pushing the officer out of the bedroom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife’s eyes registered, all at once, shock at the circumstance, anger at the officers, and anger at her husband. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The first officer then said, “Not in sight?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And then, as Finn raced faster than ever toward Ms. Morales, she suddenly screamed, “Watch out!” and police officers appeared at the tops of every fence and started dropping toward the street below. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered if she should smile at the officer and whether it might help. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisons in our country sow a lot of racial hatred, both inmate-to-inmate and between inmate and officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forrest asked a police officer if the suicide note could be a forgery. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On his first day there, Alex had been introduced to his training officer, an incredibly fit black sergeant. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had been adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent when he was seventeen, for multiple convictions for arson, theft, aggravated assault, gun violence, and, finally, assaulting a police officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Madam reached out and grabbed at the coat of an officer striding toward the Battery fort. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aboard the USS Arizona, an officer was about to suit up to play in the United States Fleet championship baseball game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Suitcase had no reply, and the lieutenant did something I have rarely seen a superior officer do: he chastised his subordinate in the presence of prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the contrary, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers have received training that guarantees precisely the opposite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One actor is playing a police officer, the other a robber he’s chasing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to be cordial and plead our case, but the officer seemed firm in his words. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Roberto quickly directed my attention to the officer with a shift of his eyes and put his index finger to his lips, hushing me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The tall man was the Texas Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer for the state. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Within a week, the officer handed me Jimmy’s letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer looked at the socks on top of the heap I was holding. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Next week,” Mum said, “I shall visit every school in town—with a police officer and these photographs—starting with Cheltenham Girls’ College.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In other words: one inmate stabbed, assailant unknown, knife not found; three homemade knives found; no officers hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of February 4, 1999, however, the four officers cruising down Wheeler Avenue failed at this most fundamental task. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, July 18, the jury charged him, Fire Marshal Murphy, and two Hercules officers with criminal negligence and referred the charges to a grand jury. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“That Yossarian,” the two officers laughed, shaking their heads, and got another ball from the box on the shelf. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The officer who shot the boy said that the teen had been menacing and had moved quickly, in a threatening manner. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My husband is a police officer. He’ll be able to help you get home. Wait in here—and don’t touch anything.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the officers hung back from approaching the crowd, as if they were waiting for something. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I have spent the remainder of the day, when unengaged, in complaint, each officer chiding me and sending me away. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

An army officer hurried to get at the rear of the white line. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not common peace officers, but members of the BladeGuard, the sign of the Scythedom clearly emblazoned on the breast of their uniforms. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The officer glanced at the three of them and signaled to the left. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I think all police officers are bad,” Tori said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, at twelve fifteen, a lone Union officer and his Confederate escort arrive to see Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The other officer began to move toward his side of the vehicle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When the Right Flank needed a junior officer to help Captain Chervil, it was Avens and not Blackavar who had been selected by the Council. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers wandered toward the hallway to the left of the spiral staircase, the one with the cream carpet, so difficult to clean. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What police training does, at its best, is teach officers how to keep themselves out of this kind of trouble; to avoid the risk of momentary autism. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He started crying as he told me this because he just couldn't understand why the officer had done that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I heard you were a military family. Word travels around fast in this neighborhood. So you, Mr. Bull, are a Marine officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had started when Harper and other officers were doing random pat-frisks of inmates headed out the yard door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf cared very deeply about winning parades and about bringing Clevinger up on charges before the Action Board for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the cadet officers Lieutenant Scheisskopf had appointed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You mean the naval officers don’t like to hear us throwing glasses?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This doesn’t prove you didn’t rob that bank!” the officer yells. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Obinze asked an immigration officer when she came to lead the man from Djibouti out to see a visitor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Others found out—from a friend, family member, police officer, or newspaper office—that they were tuned to a radio drama. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He reaches for his officer’s hat and settles it on his head. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the important officers and church deacons are there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“A famous parole officer told me that once.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One of the officers he got to know was Major John André, the chief British intelligence officer in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have a look at this,” an officer said, handing him copies of Captain Herrick’s cables to Washington. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Armistead jumped down, saw a boy in front of him, kneeling, crying, a row of men crouched under the far bank, an officer yelling, pounding with the flat of his sword. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer was talking into his radio, and though I couldn't see his eyes behind his sunglasses, it felt like he was staring a hole into the back of Nathan's head. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And yet the nature of both jobs was that, ceding the decision making to commanding officers, you went anyway. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys wasn’t sure if that little speech was supposed to settle the matter somehow, but the officer was clearly unmoved. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We’d been taught that worrying about inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering, that it almost demeaned an officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But officer, I said I don’t want him to have it,” Clayton’s mother said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

From where they squatted by the hearth in their attic they could hear the carefree laughing, singing, and sometimes drunken quarreling of the officers billeted at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington even suggested that Hunter tell his British case officer that he got the information because American officers “are very incautious in speaking of the strength of their regiments.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gather all the senior officers. I want a meeting as soon as Reyna has left on her fool’s quest. There will be a few changes in the legion’s plans.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Police officers volunteer to read to students in public schools. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After repeating the order one more time, and watching Wes ignore him again, one of the officers stepped forward. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heron was supposed to be a Tory; he wasn’t supposed to know where American commissary officers were. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the cell door clanked open and what seemed like an entire squadron of LEP officers flooded the confined space. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The judge frowned and asked questions of two officers who stood near Madam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their officers claimed, with supercilious air, that they practiced speed and marksmanship in case the French should invade; but we all of us knew for what eventuality they prepared. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Out of town,” said the older officer, coming out of the house. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The threat of assault from superior officers was certainly an unwelcome hazard to negotiate. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The officer received me with his boots up on the desk, chewing a greasy sandwich, badly shaven, with his jacket unbuttoned. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs in the Newman house he could look in and see a group of officers as usual, almost as always, playing at cards. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to abandon Orr’s tent would be to abandon Orr, who would have been spurned and humiliated clannishly by these four simple-minded officers waiting to move in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The cop car is parked outside, but both officers must be inside, maybe even in the backyard by now if Peck snitched. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing that Dowell was in profound distress, the officer took him to the police station, where a police surgeon sat with him and tried to find out what was wrong. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A naval officer stood on the sand, looking down at Ralph in wary astonishment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind the logbook as much as the officers who cringed at paperwork of any kind did. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped on the sidewalk, circled behind my parked car, and came up behind me while the other officer continued to point the gun at me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Your husband was supposed to present himself for deportation last week," the oldest-looking officer says. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The police were called and, upon arrival, arrested the officers on assault charges. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked it, as a king of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slowly growing swarm of aides and other officers, reporters, foreigners, musicians, began gathering a respectful distance away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two officers on the sides wore brown shirts and pants, but the man in the middle wore the black of a senior officer. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pondered what I had said, then told his officers to pull back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did he look like?” another officer asks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We waited, the more senior officers speculating about what was up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The draft didn't begin until men were eighteen, the officer said. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The seats were filling with officers in full uniform and their ladies; in remoter areas, the rank and file were admitted to celebrate their favorite Regimental commanders in this act of buffoonage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The officers were scrutinizing every one in the column, sometimes speaking to each other, going forward to flash a light in some one’s face. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His mother looked like an officers wife, fancy and unaccustomed to dirt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Anyone speak German?” shouted the officer in charge of the radio room. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Throughout the summer of 1971, Attica was jumpy; it took only a small confrontation in the yard between two inmates and three officers to spark the violent inmate takeover that would make history. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you don’t know, there’s always an alternative, like head instead of chairman, press officer instead of spokesman, firefighter instead of fireman, representative instead of congressman, and so on. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officer takes out his phone, saying he’ll have to call the police. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Even the recruitment officer was so busy counting out the twenty-five one-dollar bills Ned handed him that he neglected to ask for proof of age. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If those police officers weren’t going to jail, then it made sense that the whole prison system was messed up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It separates the protestors from a cluster of officers in riot gear. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Later in the day Mama replaced me on the gate with a larger, more senior officer and sent me to patrol the gym. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started to tell him that I wasn’t an officer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the captain and the other naval officers shaking their heads condescendingly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt a little weird helping Hazel make a portrait of Calypso - as if he were talking to a police artist: Yes, officer, that’s the girl who stole my heart! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The officer just wants him to get home safely. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And when I come to you, a commissioned officer of the law,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chief among these was a handbook by an Army officer named Parker Hitt, an expert who had gone to France to serve with American forces. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The British officers I knew were confident the American army was fallen apart. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Germans arrived, British intelligence officers set up hidden microphones all over Farm Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake turned around and saw an American officer, spreading word quietly to the other American military men in the church sanctuary. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me through!” he shouted to the officer. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But we had also learned that many D.A.’s saw attacks on correction officers as low-priority prosecutions, since the criminals were already in jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to puzzle the British officer at all. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only officers are ever authorized to do that. I censored it in your name.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As they subdued him, the inmate next door started screaming out, berating the tough officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was nothing like our experience at Coxsackie: Even these hardened inmates, who so outnumbered us, were intimidated by a large detachment of officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers of the American Chess Foundation maintained that Reshevsky was the better player, and they arranged to have him prove it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Three police officers caught up to her, grabbed her hair, kicked her, and beat her with their nightsticks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Do you not know that an officer should be with his troops?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Possibly only Gage himself although before the start was actually made he would have to tell his officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the young officer entered and stepped aside, there emerged from behind him a short stumpy guard with enormous arms and shoulders. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The police officer then began to ask many questions, starting with their parents’ names, their father’s occupation, where the rest of their family was, when their parents had left, and so on. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t speak to me. If you see me on the street, you’re going to turn and walk the other way. Disappear. Or I will go to your commanding officer. Maybe I will anyway.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, here’s your keys,” said the officer, passing to me two of the four heavy rings on his belt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Colonel," another of his officers said, "there's still time for everything to come out right." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the three pilots all met that evening at Kimpo for their preflight preparation, the first officer and the engineer would have bowed to the captain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have time for this, convict. Nearly half my time-stop has elapsed. Another few hours and one of my best officers will be blue-rinsed!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The deciding difference for some officers appeared to be architecture. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The total damage included one stomach pumped, three breakups of long-term relationships, one lost diamond earring, four outrageous hotel-room parties, and five matching tattoos allegedly decorating the behinds of the senior class officers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And only an officer of Rome can lead them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the officer continued examining the room with the lantern and showed no sign of interest until he discovered the seventy-two chamberpots piled up in the cupboards. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

According to arresting officers, the incident started when an unidentified man made a proposal to one of the women. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lies helped her friend in the camp, knowing that if an officer saw her she would be killed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I went through the center-stairway passage and asked another officer to accompany me while I unlocked Perch’s shower cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine months earlier, an intruder wielding a knife had somehow managed to jump a fence and barge through this same door, running through the State Floor before being tackled by a Secret Service officer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the most part, his rages in the past have been directed at authority figures—father, brother, Army sergeant, state parole officer—and have led to violent assaultive behavior on several occasions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the crew was made up of able seamen accustomed to the harsh weather of the North Sea, two doctors, a handful of university scientists, officers, a carpenter, and a cook. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was dressed differently than the ones around us: instead of a helmet he wore a black-brimmed officer’s hat, and instead of a rifle he carried a holstered revolver. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the way to the PX an officer stopped me and asked me why I was out of uniform. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swales and small hills soon hid the officers from us, and us from them, but I felt very anxious about digging up a grave when they were on the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lots of officers, I thought, liked to think of themselves as overseers, as enforcers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two wounded in this boat, for both were officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman police officer comes to the door of the den and talks into Ms. Pagett's ear. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s not, then,” he said, terminating the call; hanging up, he said to Rick, “Polokov didn’t show up for work today. No explanation. What’s he done, officer?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hunter handed Washington a sample of his ability to swipe intelligence material—a letter that was supposed to go to the commanding officer of British forces in Canada. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For officers, the lineup room represents the transition between the outside and the inside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would just have to wait until the officers were out of my way. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

As the five picketers crossed Pennsylvania Avenue, twenty-nine police officers swept in to arrest them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Juanita stood up and looked at the door behind the officers in the room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases against the city, the federal government, FEMA, police officers, the Army Corps of Engineers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He reached for the chain-link fence in front of him, intending to get the attention of an officer of some kind he saw near the back door of the station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The young man, who was no more than eighteen years old, was wearing his prison cap in the presence of senior officers, a violation of regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, and also, because at the end of every argument she reminds me of the deal I made with a certain officer of the Gestapo, and I collapse. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Through the curtain of rain he glimpsed Woundwort dodging among his officers and urging them back into the ditch on the edge of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of a uniformed police officer loomed in the doorway. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’d been treated disrespectfully too many times by him, he complained to some B-block officers a day or two later, and was too old to put up with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the war itself, William had to stand by and watch as his colleagues and assistants became military officers, then rose in rank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That was one of the strict rules for those who were allowed to take their patrol vehicles home with them—you must keep your ears on, just in case a fellow officer needs help. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the physical-education officer at Lowery Field ordered everyone to fall out for calisthenics one afternoon, Yossarian, the private, reported instead at the dispensary with what he said was a pain in his right side. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When it’s over, so many parents and students swarm Dr. Cook that a police officer has to guide him through. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Now,” the officer said, smiling down at them and showing his rotten teeth, “now, Jews, you are ready for resettlement.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was tension; some army officers had already been arrested. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers, in the last light of day, found himself seated in the office of the lighthouse chief petty officer, a large man named Evan Powell. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But while the regular officer, a fat, powerful- looking cigar chomper named Orrico, was at pains to explain the job, he was not handing me the ring of keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a large force of officers finally arrived, they arrested more blacks than whites, leaving no doubt as to what side they were on. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This one I couldn’t see, but it took longer than the others and had the officers shouting, “Stop resisting! Stop resisting!” partway through. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enjoying yourselves?” asked a black officer who I assumed was an old-timer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would certainly need an enterprising officer—Captain Campion perhaps—for patrols seldom crossed the iron road, and the wet country beyond—the country near the river—was only partly known. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child of the Marine officer was a prodigy of the first impression. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At that moment, police officers emerged from a bar by the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He’d been promptly picked up by a police officer who accused him of stealing it, unwilling to accept that a young black boy would have come across a new bike in an honest way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then, as an afterthought, ‘Beer ... Hi, kitchen,’ he yelled, in the arrogant way Johnny noticed the young officers always called for service. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, he debated whether to report the officer for denouncing Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They spit out the evil Pol Pot’s name and swear to each other they will hunt him and his officers down to avenge their suffering. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep moving, keep moving,” ordered a police officer, stepping into the road and waving the car on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The officer was the very Mr. Denny concerning whose return from London Lydia came to enquire, and he bowed as they passed. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the foyer, two uniformed officers sitting at a table asked for identification, took my letter, and nodded toward a mountain of luggage nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my sister Princesse took me aside and explained: My favorite uncle, Rumenge, the officer who always brought me treats and new clothes, had been killed in one of the conflicts in the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two officers had been slashed in the head, Popish said; one was now on disability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s left me a present beside the sugar tin, where the picture of an SS officer once sat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

An incident of police brutality that would be understood as undeniably racist if the officers involved were white may be given a more charitable spin if the officers are black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked round as his officers came up the run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the police officer who trapped my mom in the car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As if she hadn't answered in English, her mother repeated for the officers, "A big green car." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Our strategy was not to argue with him in the field, but to contest the charges in court where we would have a chance to make our case before slightly more enlightened officers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An officer grabbed me by the arms before I could move. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We found these in his desk, too,” said the police officer. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

One day, an officer said to Tefu: “Look, man, why do you complain every morning?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they imagined that they were singing to fellow officers fresh from the fray. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I remembered how she’d smiled at me when I told her about Salim getting a call on his mobile and said how she wished her officers had half my brains. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several carriages containing bundled-up ladies and serious-looking officers passed along the street, pulled by shaggy-coated horses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also given a very nice promotion and made an officer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“NKVD officers are walking by the train with rifles,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“White people,” the study’s authors observed, “are simply not perceived as drug offenders by Seattle police officers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A fourth officer, Gotham, showed me around another day when I worked the upper floor of the Box. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Wes hit the final stair, he looked up and saw his brother lying facedown on the floor, a police officer’s knee in his back, handcuffs being tightened around his wrists. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“What does he say? What does the officer say?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then we heard one of their officers yelling and motioning for us to move back toward the hamlet. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs, and went directly to the officer at the information booth and said I was looking for my parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When I replayed the whole incident in my mind, what bothered me most was the moment when the officer drew his weapon and I thought about running. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here, for example, are excerpts of interviews that the University of Missouri criminologist David Klinger did with police officers for his fascinating book Into the Kill Zone. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Doyle’s voice, bragging to the police officer that Amanda and I are two of the smartest kids at Wagner, rings in my head. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The rest of the wedding party yelled at the officers as they placed their friend in the back of the cruiser. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Too many low-grade officers around, for one thing.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Mistakes were being made all the time, officers being sent to death needlessly. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The officer didn’t seem to care that he’d been missing, and said nothing about what had happened to the other men in the jeep. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the station lobby, a kleptomaniac dwarf was busy picking the pockets of everyone else in the booking line, including the officer he was handcuffed to. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Police officers lined the streets, creating a kind of wall, containing us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Except this,” said a police officer, coming out of Jake’s bedroom, holding a blue booklet in his gloved hand. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you, miss?” the officer said, aiming the light. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I went upstairs to the courtroom, I spotted the correctional officer who had given me such a hard time when I had first met Avery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The officer, instead of writing him up, threw it away without comment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were pathetically good and patient, but he saw an officer strike a man who was screaming. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officer returned and spoke to his partner: “They don't have anything on him.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now it’s our turn, but unfortunately, the head officer announces that the office is closing in five minutes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The watch officer gunned them down himself, riddling their bodies with bullets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The adjutant general wrote to Tom’s captain, saying that Tom had “proved an excellent officer” and that he would “regret to see him quit the service.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I stood up and followed the immigration officer out of the classroom and into his car marked “Border Patrol.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But by now, Chapman and all of the law enforcement officers had grown tired of us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A heartbeat later, the police officer flies down the stairs, his feet barely landing on the steps. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transportation sergeant had greeted Saline with delight: “Now, that’s a correction officer!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other families in our flat scrambled to give the Nazi officer everything they had squirreled away: little bits of jewelry, a pocket watch, a handful of zloty. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are two more officers behind him, crowding into the shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One senior training officer, who happened to be black, had suggested that there was nothing wrong with such a greeting and that we ought to get in the habit of using it with our inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to Woundwort or any of his officers that Thlayli was not the Chief Rabbit of his warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the main passage to the upper floors, and I would need to let through all the officers who had to pass, then lock it back up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have until the count of three to disperse,” the officer on the loudspeaker says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

About the stables, British orderlies, officers, servants, and small British horse boys, the servants of the servants, were always congregating. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It blew me back,” Carlitta Collins, the school security officer, said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The officer nods back, and Dr. Cook leads us into a room full of large, shadowed objects. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The officers on the base took action on the Major Major problem later that same day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen officers rushed upstairs through the center gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thanked him and walked to the visitation room door with the officer following behind me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two more police cars drove slowly by; they paused briefly for the officers to exchange a few words with the men on horseback, then moved on. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Our group felt very white to me compared to the on-duty officers we passed—and particularly compared to the inmates we saw. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both inmates and younger officers tend to be on the move. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 1:41:59, the first officer asks, “Not in sight?” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The block’s keeplock officer, instead of borrowing my keys and ushering the inmates to their cells, called, “They’re back,” when he came through the gate and then disappeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until this point, the most the quiet young man had said about the accident and his feelings was to the probation officer, Kaylene Yonk. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The officer takes a cursory peek inside my lunch bag—the contraband check. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lyte had Gods plenty of friends among the British officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the Agency, his fellow officers considered him lazy and unreliable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t that way with the granatieri. They were afraid. The officers all came from such good families.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Keys were passed back and forth between officers all the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer glanced down at Pong's uniform and winked. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A high-ranking officer—but not the colonel who had spoken to them before—stepped into the circle with them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer smiles, motioning for his men to stand down, but then the guns jump back up again because people are pouring down the ladder from the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I'd tried to explain what I saw, but the police officer just shook his head and said I was in shock. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They went silently, almost willingly, eager to be as far from the officer and the soldiers’ guns as they could. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them look annoyed when his shoulders bump against theirs, but they swallow their anger when they realize he's a police officer. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we came close to them I saw one of the officers point to a man in the column. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My mother rubs her temples, and while the doctor outlines what he expects to be a quick recovery process, Dean Anderson enters—along with one of the police officers that I saw talking to Phil. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Confederate and Union officers are renewing old friendships. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary Owsla—sentries—were not too hard to find, but officers were another matter and he had lost three in less than a month. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that the other side had twice his numbers, but most of them were afraid of him and none was a trained Efrafan officer. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re saying it was Red Dalton, the football star, right?” the police officer asked. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I spoke to one of the officers. He assured me we’ll be underway any moment. Hey there!” he yelled down to the young men below. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, says the librarian, he reads hundreds of books about English officers fishing in Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even when DNA testing confirmed that male officers were the fathers of these children, very little was done about it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officer pushed some papers across his desk. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The officer beckons him to come on, but Dr. Cook puts a hand up and comes over to us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In 1869, after a huge riot involving several hundred inmates in which many inmates and one officer were killed, a law was passed prohibiting its further use. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Langley’s personnel officer, Melvin Butler, courted Williams energetically by phone, trying to convince him to accept the laboratory’s offer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I figured Mr. Stokely would be great at helping everybody do their jobs better, and I gave him the title of chief operating officer. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The boys move only their eyes, only their thoughts, tracking in their minds the passage of the two officers as they move between tables, seeking out the next boy whose father has been killed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The officers brought the boy to the room at the end of the hall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He hung up, walked slowly back to the police officer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Also we were required to wear an automatic pistol; even doctors and sanitary officers. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I got there first, and an officer sitting across the room counseled me to calm down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An SS officer had come in and, with him, the smell of the Angel of Death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police officers get into a long line, facing off against the protesters, but the officers have shields in front of them like they’re worried that the protesters might hurt them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it wasn’t hard to convince police officers that tackling fare-beating made sense. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He informed the commanding officer that not only was it an imposition to have stand-up desks, but that they sloped so steeply that the books fell off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week after Lieutenant Scheisskopf followed Clevinger’s recommendation and let the men elect their own cadet officers, the squadron won the yellow pennant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We wore sidearms, and it was instructive to witness the lengths to which the prison went to keep guns—even officers’ guns—out of the facility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officers were accused of committing war crimes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The officer asks Momma for her ID and proof of insurance, and I beg Black Jesus to get us home, hoping there won’t be a gunshot as she searches through her purse. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In the lucid freedom of his dream state, Turner intended to shoot the officer through the chest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She found him outside, being led away in handcuffs by two uniformed police officers. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He was getting out on his own, and the officer yanked him the rest of the way.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He expected to see an officer, a soldier, or at least a policeman seated there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the officers found out, an order was issued to get the men to stop using this name. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jethro could remember the early days of the war when he had felt resentful upon learning that Halleck was Grant’s superior officer. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coroner ruled his death justifiable homicide, justifiable because the officer said Brooks had been resisting arrest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Failure to say ‘sir’ to superior officers when not interrupting them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The visitation area at Holman is a large circular room surrounded by glass so that officers can look in from any vantage point. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One to a parent or guardian, the other to your employer if you have a job, or your probation officer if you’re on probation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos and several officers go to find him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With two officers, encounters with citizens are far more likely to end in an arrest or an injury to whomever they are arresting or a charge of assaulting a police officer. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as we’d been told at the Academy, an officer could stop a fight just by turning on his PA system and loudly sliding a shotgun shell into its chamber. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered around the building until she finally found a young officer working in a filing room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His elder half-brother, Lawrence, who had been a British officer, saw to it that George was accepted as a midshipman in the Royal Navy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not unforward nor imprecise in our criticism of our officers, muttering that cowering timidity was but poor cover for past incompetence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The officers assured him that they wanted to keep things relaxed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But you know I can’t promote you. Not after that episode with the bottle. Did you have to pick an officer?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn't Bas go home, the officer suggested, and wait a year in case he changed his mind. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In Moscow, KGB officers were intensely frustrated by how little they’d uncovered about the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gandhi traveled back to India, where he spoke to the English government officers who were responsible for Indians in Natal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The mayor chose to rely on the police force, moving most officers to the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An officer was riding toward him; there was a violent blow. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harper and the other officers took off after him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw one man on a black horse, waving a plumed hat: an officer. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are you headed?” asked the officer—a burly guy with dark, angular eyebrows and a round face—as he ran the little brown paper over my hands. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That person, for me and many other new officers, was Sergeant Wickersham. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finish, the suspicious officer points to the old man, who is nodding away at the names I’ve read off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of police officers sat at the counter, eating fried egg sandwiches and exchanging notes. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn't told the officers I was a lawyer or informed them that what they were doing was illegal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officer driving a van that ferries disabled inmates and others around Sing Sing jumped out and helped subdue the man. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For officers, professionalization meant more training and implied a higher standard of on-the-job conduct. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My arrest had been discovered by my friends; Fatima Meer brought some food to the jail for me and I shared it with the two officers in the car. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as had been the case with Claudette, the driver called the police, officers boarded, and one asked her, “Why don’t you stand up?” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They signed a loyalty oath to get their pay from the finance officer, to obtain their PX supplies, to have their hair cut by the Italian barbers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Lyons, a twenty-four-year-old black man, was driving his car in Los Angeles one morning when he was pulled over by four police officers for a burned-out taillight. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She soon learned, however, that the contrabands resented her being able to draw rations, as though she were an officer or a soldier. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them wonders if the police officer is going to make them move the truck that's been taking up two parking spots in front of the apartment building. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then another police officer: ‘Sometimes mobile phones ring a number of their own accord - when the keypad’s not locked.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even one of the bank officers had to have been in on it, passing information to Hertzoon about their customers and tipping him off to newcomers from the country opening accounts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jack chose not to hate them or the guards and officers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mary sat on the outdoor concrete steps with the officer standing over her, the two mirroring each other’s despair and frustration. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ben and me walk quickly, almost running as far away from the officer as possible. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times a year, I would come to find, a Sing Sing officer was hauled off in handcuffs by the state police. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Schindler strolled past us in conversation with a German officer, I suddenly felt that I must do something, anything, to prevent our being sent back. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After the officers completed a pat-down, Lyons dropped his hands, prompting an officer to slam Lyons’s hands back on his head. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A police officer brought a sheet of yellow plastic from the squad car—the kind usually used for covering corpses. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If I see you doing this again, I’m taking you in,” the officers warn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His parole officer was one of those people. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

On Hula Lane, a family was dressing for Mass. At the officers’ club at Wheeler Field, men were leaving a poker game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

These reverberations of gangland strife at Rikers, plus the huge size of the galleries, the constant turnover of inmates and, especially, officers, ensured there was no chance of cozy community developing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high officers of the Golden Company rose from stools and camp chairs as they entered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were in the middle of this little power struggle when another gallery officer appeared from downstairs and shifted the balance of power to my favor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his own Secret Service, Gage sent two officers disguised as “countrymen” to find out about a store of guns and gunpowder that the Patriots reportedly had in Worchester, Massachusetts. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we officers could calmly remain inside the mess hall, we would be more likely to remain safe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked through the window and saw the warden radio for more officers to come into the area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every task simulated an actual situation we might have to deal with as correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaines, a black officer so big that he seldom seemed to have to raise his voice, had traded words with an inmate who tried to cadge extra juice from under his nose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Scruggs pulled back his fist to hit the guy right in the teeth, the man reached for the revolver at his hip and yelled, “I’m a police officer and I’m going to shoot you!” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I spoke to the police officer, Detective Riley, about it after we saw Rachel at the Hipwells’ house, and she said it was nothing to worry about. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw the officers, with their guns and uniforms, I thought there must be a war on the way. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“What did you say? What did you say to a police officer?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers’ high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As they heard him preparing to go first into the depths of the enemy warren as calmly as though he were looking for dandelions, his officers’ spirits rose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took his knife and his sword and told him he was not to ieave his cell until the high officers met to decide what was to be done with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The commander had decided to take offense at the fact that the first female officer in Recon’s history had been assigned to his squad. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn’t take orders. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sentry let him by, but the next moment an officer, half-shaved and in shirt sleeves, was shouting at him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now ’twas lit with torches, and sentries stood outside the front doors, jealously protecting the officers who slept within. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

A jelly-bellied officer with thick spectacles was purchasing a tall stack of books from the man behind the counter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Tate, the district attorney, and other law enforcement officers who had become targets of criticism were cheered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I would tell them that the Border Patrol officer had made a mistake thinking I was here illegally, that once I proved to him I was born in Colton, California, he let me back in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But fault lines between the officers and the scientists opened up immediately, as the talk turned to how much money the scientists considered necessary for their research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This man is a police officer, I told myself. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When they came for me that morning, I thought that maybe I was being taken to the officers’ lounge for questioning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defenders of the police, on the other hand, invariably take refuge in what Fyfe calls the split-second syndrome: An officer goes to the scene as quickly as possible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What officer is designated by the Constitution to be president of the Senate of the United States? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You didn't see female police officers or professional athletes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried to the door and unlocked it, and a German officer and a Judenrat police officer pushed past me down the hall. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the officers had left, I imagined them returning to the mainland, writing up a report, telling stories in the pub, spreading the news that the mysterious southerner really had been digging for treasure. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And if that didn’t work, you got your own personal peace officer 24/7. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The officer took an interest in them and gave orders to bring them food. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting inside his office was the head of mall security, two uniformed police officers, and my and Teddy’s homeroom teacher, Mrs. Vorster. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The officers told him to face the car, spread his legs, and put his hands on his head. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At noon, the officers of the Eighth were photographed, preserving for future generations a record of the part to be played by blacks in the great battle ahead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then one of the officers addressed the group. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m a police officer,” he said with authority. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I think about Momma saying how the police officer said she was afraid, and that makes me mad. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Reb officer took off his hat, bowed formally. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is what I knew at the outset:The officer who killed Prince Jones was black. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He used to ask me sneeringly sometimes why I hadn’t been an officer, as though I’d done something wrong. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged man in knife-edge whites took his message up three decks to the Marconi room adjacent to the officer’s promenade. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Presently a boat approached them and a British officer came on board. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To pass the time and learn something from listening to the officers.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that his own officers were lying to him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The officer had fallen asleep inside the car at the time, according to a police spokesperson.’ Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Konoval was following the team with the camera, but as the officers knew, all he could see was their backs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, to my amazement, a mess-hall officer called. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inmates made fun of us: “Look at the little officer, teaching the old man to march . . . Hey, little general, how many rations of bread does the old man give you for this?” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You never saw a city guardsman down in the Lazy Eel, or a customs officer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The police officers were sitting on the sofa in the living room, a fortysomething man in plain clothes and a younger one in uniform with acne on his neck. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was the floor of B-block containing galleries R and W, and I was to assist the officer on duty there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me think he was probably a good officer, funny but tough, an enforcer of the rules. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out-of-state police could not make arrests, Kathy discovered, so on any arrest, a local officer had to be present along with any Guardsmen or contractors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even now they might possibly be caught, if only there were a really enterprising officer to put in charge of the search. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lyons complained that the car keys he was holding were causing him pain, the officer forced Lyons into a chokehold. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Carroll was in the officer s hooch, and I stopped in to see him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Scoob knows is the officer who asked the questions disappeared for a few minutes after getting Scoob’s answers, then poked his head back in the room and said: You can stay. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I was just trying to talk Paige into coming to the tea I’m going to give for the senior officers’ wives in December, Virge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are you?” one of the officers demanded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But presently I gave command to my officers to flay those sheep the bronze cut down, and make burnt offerings of flesh to the gods below—to sovereign Death, to pale Persephone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And evidently the regular officer was satisfied with these men. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw a second Russian officer with the others. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He dashed to the phone and dialed the number of the conservation officer for the Roxbury area. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I’m so glad the liaison officer has discovered your French and given you a job that makes use of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Horses were for officers only, or barbarian cavalry, not for Roman legionnaires. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The officers we saw were all white, and they already knew about the altercation in the B-block yard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke sofdy, yet the high officers of the Night's Watch all fell quiet, die better to hear what the ancient had to say. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Doha was too far away to hear, but the soldier looked and acted like an officer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was easier to stay incurious as an officer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though officers were nearby in both cases, none of them, surprisingly, appeared to be in much danger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the officers left as soon as the map was finished. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I’d called Kathy Anderson, the university’s press officer, and sent her the magazine piece, asking if she could help put me in touch with the admissions people. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first officers to respond had been working undercover, thus the “hippie” clothes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The hardest part for a new officer, though, was inmates’ love of testing a newjack. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this was due to our status as state “peace officers.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third officer had come through from the kitchen and was rifling inside a box of Chaim’s clothes that hadn’t made it to the front bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before he left, he promised his probation officer he would stay out of trouble. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without any greeting whatsoever, the commanding officer announced: “Mandela, we have found your manuscript.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They represented, he liked to say, his authority as an officer of the law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of being shot, Yelena was imprisoned in the basement of the officers’ guardhouse for ten days with the job of whitewashing the walls. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Except on days when I shave new prisoners, I cut the hair of SS officers and guards and and give them shaves,” he said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Have you seen a boy in here? This officer's looking to speak with him." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Two of the officers ran down the hillside, away from the angry mob. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

During the melee, Fuller was arrested for assaulting a police officer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The officer came closer and shouted to him to be silent. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the younger officer the rueful look of a father exasperated with his misbehaving son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Information about gangs was never casually revealed to officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison regulations stated that prisoners must stand in the presence of a senior officer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our guide here, Popish said, would be McCorkle—one of the officers who had harassed us on the night of our arrival at the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an hour an officer peeked in to hand him a bag lunch. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’d already selected the officer’s rank and name, the latter borrowed from a former acquaintance, the then warden of Kansas State Penitentiary: Tracy Hand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to an officer who was an excellent shot.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was sent overseas as a pilot, and I should be flying more combat missions and spending less time on my duties as a mess officer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The two other officers, one of them from my class, held their hands off their sides as though they expected action any instant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Profound racial injustice occurs when minority police officers follow the rules. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The officer knew this as well as I did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most officers didn’t use the sheets for this, but I saw no reason not to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major found true happiness there on the lopsided basketball court with the officers and enlisted men who were almost his friends. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It took a moment before the officer recovered and resumed pushing him out the door. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At Maria Auxiliadora, many church members, including its priest, have been intimidated by police officers for helping migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The crowd had settled some, and soldiers were lining up in orderly fashion, thanks to their barking officers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diallo reached the inside door and grabbed the doorknob with his left hand while, as the officers would later testify, turning his body sideways and “digging” into his pocket with his other hand. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the first instance, the officer appears to be describing something that is quite impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The officer gets him out of the car, makes him take a Breathalyzer test. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The grub he gives us there is real officers’ fare. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating third in his class from Harvard University, Ellsberg stunned friends and professors alike by applying for officer’s training with the Marine Corps. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

An officer took a photo of a bloodstain on the pavement. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Alex got off and displayed his ticket to the officer standing there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Vietnamese officer hit the prisoner with his pistol butt. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought carefully about whether anything in Newjack could conceivably endanger my fellow officers before I included it in the book, and no officer has yet complained to me about those revelations. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thirteen the first time I saw a police officer up close. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I probably wouldn’t have lived for very long if I had assaulted those officers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Over four days in my first months on the job, I got to enter another realm normally guarded jealously by senior officers: transportation detail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of the officers had insisted that the South would be happier under the Queen than under the Union. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the exchange, one white officer was killed, and the county’s white deputy sheriff was wounded. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been a police officer, a detective, who had lost his life in the line of duty, she said as she served us more and more of the delicious sweet bread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Achmad, an Indonesian government officer, was acting as the boss, because he and I were organizing an ecological survey for the government and had hired Wiwor and Sauakari as local assistants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a critical sense, the police officers whom Klinger describes performed better because their senses narrowed: that narrowing allowed them to focus on the threat in front of them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Major Henry Rathbone, seated in the box just feet away from the president, was an experienced army officer, familiar with the sounds of gunshots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The British have confined all American officers to their lodging houses today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even tho’ the Queen can’t come, the officers always hold a ball in her honor,” Hannah said as she rolled out the pie dough. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lilienthal recorded the scene, the thought of the Super made the Pentagon officers’ “eyes light up.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Those police officers must have stood at the top of Nobska Light with a megaphone and shouted about it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Other officers now spurned their black oxfords for more casual boots, especially the lightweight Bates and Hi-Tec brands, which were popular among police. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officer has one eye on Max as he listens to the man reporting a missing stuffed animal. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“This work is not for a married female. You are either going to neglect your work or neglect your family” were the words of a superior officer long ago. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An officer could’ve been cut. Who here could live with that?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, he had been told of an unusual number of British officers gathered on Boston’s Long Wharf, talking in low tones. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the LEP officers were switching weapons, right at that moment when their hands were fumbling with holsters, that’s when the Mud Man spoke. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was quiet in the officer’s room on Solar Station #5—except for the soft purring of the mighty Beam Director somewhere far below. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Some weeks previous, Mr. Sharpe had told my friend Private G—g that I was in demand to play with the orchestra gathered for the diversion of the officers and the consolation of the besieged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He wants a word with me. This Friday. One of his officers dropped off this note.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The model of an officer in total control was a lie, Smith said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The queen's not interested in your views, old man, and neither am I," the officer said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Or that I would have to see some kind of school parole officer named Dell Duke. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Soldiers moved a barrier and allowed the vehicle of well-dressed women and officers in uniform to pass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She told us about how she tried to bribe the officers into letting her friends go, but they threatened to kill her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a good job for a brand-new officer, in part because even this new, strict seating plan had its exceptions. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first is with an officer who fired on a man who was threatening to kill his partner, Dan: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“That man has Frightful, and he’s about to sell her. He’s no hacker. Let’s find the conservation officer and get to Beaver Corners now.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, señor, I have other guests. Many of the officers in the Navy and their ladies. They ask me what the noise is. What am I to do?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was escorted downstairs by three police officers, led to the back of their car, and shoved in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then the wife of an army officer spit at the protesters and tore down the banner. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

An officer stood in front of them, a slender man with a blue cap that somehow looked both rakish- and sloppy on his head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Supervising this entire phase of the operation was a medical officer with a flair for accounting who okayed pulses and checked the figures of the tally clerk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A black officer returned fire, bringing Crawford down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was in the middle of letting them out when the keeplock officer reappeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the last of the wounded were transported in, the commanding officer saluted Dr. Han, and then with one last bow, he and all his men boarded the trucks and drove off again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They watched police officers haul migrants by the hair or twist their wrists behind their backs, the “manita de puerco, ” before throwing them into the back of their pickup trucks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They radioed their commanding officer and asked what he wanted them to do. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In spite of a slight fear that he might, once more, meet that half-shaved shirt-sleeved officer who had ordered him whipped, he went almost every day to the Common. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Washington listened to the unanimous advice of all his cabinet officers and reluctantly agreed to serve a second term, he tucked away Madison s draft for another day. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“This is not a peaceful assembly,” an officer on a loudspeaker says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I immediately made a request to the commanding officer to be permitted to attend her funeral in the Transkei, which he turned down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to a report from the FBI, army intelligence officers knew all about Oppenheimer’s past associations with Communists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I made my way to the center gate, searching the crowd for an-other gray uniform, I was tremendously relieved to spot Miller, an unusually competent officer from my class, whom I really liked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Union officer and probably the most romantic guy ever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He tapped the new officer’s badge that gleamed on her shirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m the conservation officer. You’re harboring an endangered species—a peregrine falcon.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had never seen this police officer, a white man, before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer approached and asked for Luma’s license, then disappeared for a moment into his car. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Not that. The way you looked at him. Don't you have any brains at all? You never look at an officer like that, do you understand? You want to get us all killed?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The two officers ambled around the corner, probably making their regular rounds through the neighborhood. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a furious squabble of accusation and recrimination he would demote officers and promote the most unlikely soldiers from the ranks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A uniformed officer came in and escorted X-Ray out of the room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The officer parks and puts his brights on. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The squad car pulls into the sally port at the side of Alameda County Juvenile Hall and the officers escort you into the booking room. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Through him, a few of the orchestra played at small dances held by officers and Tories, or accompanied suppers with chamber music. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The officer turned smartly on his heel and left. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army commissary officers, like the one Sam was working for, were buying up a lot of the livestock to feed the troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting yelled at now and then—whether by sergeants, other officers, or inmates—was just life, especially in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By all accounts, Andre was a model British officer with impeccable manners, who had the misfortune to be caught doing his duty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Though few had seen it, the incident was well known to most officers at Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On searching further, the fishery officers found other plants where rains or ordinary clean-up waters would carry insecticides into the sewer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As she had expected, a male officer was named the new head of the unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘We’ve got seventeen officers staying with us. We got sheets by the dozen.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was much darker and the moon was high, and then ahead there was an officer, a staff officer, sitting on a black horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also footage of about six white officers subduing a flailing black inmate in an office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We were together then-" The officer nodded helpfully. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t mean—” “Hands on the dashboard!” the officer barks at me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had the judgment to speak calmly to the officer when he threatened to shoot me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s no question he was resisting arrest,” said the other officer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There are police officers and men dressed as the Avengers standing underneath the giant subway sign that’s lit up like the billboards for Broadway shows, American Eagle Outfitters, and more. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When he mentioned his concerns to another Klan officer, all he got was a blank stare. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

FBI agents and army intelligence officers did not. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psychotics, schizophrenics, and people with antisocial personality—I tried to sort them out, but to most officers, they were all just bugs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer laughed and moved down the wharf. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also foolish: waiting at the window, hoping to see the yard teeming with police officers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z