What is "pols"

Usage examples of "pols".

He should have been unsurprised as the media hollered, the pols debated, the scientists chased ever-receding decimal points, and the people clamored.

He knew that at one time she had been illegally married to a student commune leader, and that for one year she had lived in the rabbit warrens of Columbia University, along with all the smelly, bearded students kept subsurface lifelong by the pols and the nats.

They nodded, and the man, gripped by four thungly pols, disappeared into a parked van-quibble, ominously gray and black: police colors.

The pols wanted to drag me off to a forced-labor camp--one in Georgia--where I'd be gangbanged to death by rednecks, but he protected me.

And then she'd maneuver the student outside and then lock him out, and the pols would come and there he'd be, beating on the door exactly as she said.

Mufi said, with confidence now that the pols were beginning to depart from his bedroom, "because some of those big overweight old police marshals are screwing kids themselves and don't want to get sent up.

Three pols in gray uniforms filled the doorway, with weapon tubes and nightsticks aimed at him.

Parked in one of the slots was a police van, with several pols standing idly around it, weapons held loosely.

Aw, the hell with it, he decided wearily, and allowed himself to drop virtually weightlessly down the tube, along with the pols and Ruth Rae.

She cut off those electronic devices the pols fastened onto me before I could get out of the Police Academy building.

The pols were honest—that is, they stayed bought—and Richards remained free and unextraditable.

It took a week or so, but eventually enough pols had been reassured there’d be more than enough time and ships to evac them before Wanderer impacted.

Even in the primaries he lost -- New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania -- he did well enough to embarrass the pollsters, humiliate the pols, and crank up his staff morale another few notches.

It was a long, free-falling conversation, with people wandering in and out, over a time-span of an hour or so -- journalists, pols, spectators -- and the focus of it, as I recall, was a question that I was trying to get some bets on: How many of the primary Watergate figures would actually serve time in prison?

And all the fat cats, labor leaders and big-time pols who couldn't find the time to return his phone calls when he was desperately looking for help a few months ago are now ringing his phone off the hook within minutes after his arrival in whatever Boston, Miami or Milwaukee hotel his managers have booked him into that night.