Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remembrance. In Oakland, Calif., a tavern prowler plunged through a rosemary hedge and eluded his pursuers, was collared two blocks away when a cop sniffed the rosemary scent on his clothes...
Stepping back after an upset victory over Leverett earlier in the week, a wild-shooting Adams quintet was ploughed under by Lowell House in the second game of the afternoon by a lop-sided 47 to 29 figure. Fred Donahue led the Bellboy avalanche with 25 points to cop high scoring honors of the day. Lowell, using its greater height to advantage, had the Gold Coasters boxed up throughout the game...
With a skein of five wins and no losses to their credit, the Lions' roar has already defeated to defeat every League team but the Crimson. On paper the Lions still need to cop five out of their remaining seven games for the pennant, but the money boys are solidly behind the Light Blue five built around towering center Walt Budko...
Back at the Embassy gate, Cop Simon had found his tongue. As Soragna stepped out Simon observed cheerfully, "The sun has come out, monsieur." The Italian nodded. He was heading back to Rome, where Italians were working themselves into spasms of grief over the treaty he had just signed. "The fatherland is in mourning," said black-bordered newspapers in Rome...
...truck. He walked a lot, too, and one by one he put the boundaries behind him-Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Six months after leaving San Jose, he was walking down the streets of San Antonio, Tex., gaping at the tall buildings, the glittering stream of automobiles. Then a cop picked...