| Regrettably, the situation was no better this time around, with uniformed policemen and plainclothesmen swarming some of the polling stations. |
| The opening took place during the panic, with plainclothesmen and eight detective-bureau squads guarding the bejewelled patrons against robbers, rioters, and the mobsters who more or less ran the city. |
| Although the plainclothesmen were always there, nobody approached me, and there was no effort to kick me out of Beidaihe. |
| The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador. |
| They are usually picked up by plainclothesmen in four-wheel drives — sometimes there are policemen with them, sometimes not. |
| She found him in the bar with two K. G. B. men and, under the guise of whispering a tender farewell to him, she told him where the French plainclothesmen were standing, a few feet away. |
