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Word: copping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hill refused to make any statement last night, but witnesses alleged that he and a friend had cracked the old joke, "no my father doesn't work for a living--he's cop," in front of an officer in the lobby of the theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hill Takes Case to Superior Court | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...arrived at La Guardia field, bearing the departing Russians, a dozen suitcases, several cartons of cigarettes and 155 Ibs. of excess baggage. Under his arm, Shostakovich carried a large bundle of phonograph records. He was, he said, "glad to be returning home." Novelist Piotr Pavlenko told a Polish-speaking cop: "America is a wonderful country, a strong country. And it has one of the finest police forces in the world." Czech Journalist Jiri Hronek, however, said that "I wouldn't live in this country even if I were invited." Soviet Film Director Sergei A. Gerasimov, asked how he liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goodbye Now | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...about decided he would have to blast anyway, when three students heard him and called the cops. Parry was going back to his car for a longer wire when a patrolman stuck a pistol in his face. "Who are you, pal?" asked the cop. "I'm a loser,"*said Parry wearily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: No Future | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Today's card features five claiming races, two $1400 purses, and The Inaugural Handicap worth a tidy $2500. A sleek filly named Lawless Miss is favored to cop the branny feedbag and present the above-mentioned tidy sum to lucky G. Y. Booker. She is a homobred daughter of Gallahadion...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides to take Derek's case...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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