Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished his coffee and walked out, glancing--for lack of a worthier subject--at a passing Yard cop who had shed his coat in deference to the early June heat. The sight of the shirt-sleeved Yard cop made Vag realize that it was going to be a hot summer. With a nine o'clock every morning, and each class meeting four times a week, summer school was going to be more work than fun. Vag wondered if it were worth the effort. He ran his fingers through his thinning hair and decided that...
Foiled Again. In Casper, Wyo., L. D. Mudge bravely entered a police station to bail out a pal, got jugged as an escaped prisoner when a cop saw through his set of false whiskers...
...price of lard, the scarcity of beef, the roaring black market. There were demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then a mob attacked me," said the victim. Currently the most popular Cuban is Senator Eddy Chibas, ardent duelist and once Grau's close friend, who fills the air every Sunday night with rasping radio attacks on "the Government of dishonesty and indignity...
...finally fell in on McFeely. Hoboken's jubilant voters swept the 64-year-old boss and all his henchmen out of office. As the returns came in, they cheered, waved torchlights and paraded in the streets. Three of the new city commissioners were Italians, one was an Irish cop whom McFeely had persecuted, and one was a C.I.O. union leader. An Italian, Fred M. DeSapio, became mayor...
Other individual championships went to Lowell in swimming, Kirkland in fencing and volleyball, Eliot in softball, and Winthrop in tennis. Adams, Dunster, and Dudley failed to cop any top laurels, though the Gold Coasters did send their victorious "A" squash team down to defeat the Yale champions at New Haven. Final House Standings Leverett 1144 Eliot 1096 Winthrop 1067 Kirkland 1037 Lowell 1028 Adams 869 Dunster 865 Dudley...