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point duty

the stationing of a policeman or traffic warden at a road junction to control and direct traffic

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No references found			FORMER policeman Tony Dollive is among several readers who remain convinced that the bobby on point duty at the junction of New Street and King Street was Sam Ford. PICTURES of the PAST; READER FEEDBACK by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) Suppose they put him on point duty, And it's pouring down with rain. THE CARDBOARD CONSTABLE Listening to the radio news; Your Poem by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Before traffic lights and the Ring Road, Harold and others would do what they called point duty which meant that they wore long white gloves and stood on a small platform in the middle of the road to direct the traffic at busy junctions. Tributes to popular PC; OBITUARY: Policeman who served in Coventry ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)			Poinsettia Poinsot ellipsoid Poinsot motion Poinsot's central axis Poinsot's method Poinsot's spiral Poinsot, Louis Point point and click point and shoot point angle point at infinity Point Au Roche State Park point bar Point Barrow Point Beach State Forest point biserial correlation coefficient Point Bridget State Park point characteristic function point code point contact point defect point diagram point distal flow Point Dume State Beach point duty point estimates point fire Point Four Program point function Point Grey point group point harmonization point initiation point jammer Point Judith point load Point Lobos Ranch Point Lobos State Reserve point localization Point Lookout State Park Point Marroqui Point Marroquí Point Montara Light Station Point Mugu State Park point mutation point of arrival Point Of Contact point of contraflexure point of control point of delivery			Point de Contact National Point de Galle Point de Galle Point de Raccordement Optique Point de retournement point defect point defect Point Defence Phaser Point defense Point defense Point Defense Laser Point Defense Weapon System Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium point designation grid POINT DET Point Detonating Point Detonating Delay Point Detonating Fuze Point Detonating Impact Super Quick point diagram Point Dipole Point Dipole Interaction point distal flow Point Distribution Model point down to Point Dume Point Dume State Beach point duty Point Ecoute Jeunes point electrode point electrode point electrode Point Engineering Limited point epidemic point epidemic point epidemic point epidemic point estimate point estimate point estimate point estimates point estimates Point Evidence Analysis Point Evidence Explanation Point Expansion Module Point Feed Pre Bake point fire point firing point firing point firing point firing point firing Point For Negotiation point forceps point forceps point forceps Point Four Program point function

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