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Word: cops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager with a looping right to the eye. Then a station attendant, a real big guy, moved in to square off with Presley. But Elvis threw a Sunday punch that grazed the bruiser's puss. A cop then enforced an armistice. Next day a judge, in a courtroom twittering with Presley's bobby-sox worshippers (several with babes in arms), decided that the gas-station pair were the aggressors, socked them with fines totaling $40. Cheers rocked the court. Elvis fought his way out through screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Catch a Thief. In Lisbon, Mario Fernandes Neves tried to steal a cop's motorcycle in front of the city jail, was arrested after prisoners spotted him from a cell window, called police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark), a fallen woman (Anita Ekberg) who is on her uppers-a condition which, n the shapely case of Actress Ekberg, eaves her with plenty to cushion her fall. Pretty soon a storm comes up, and he plane goes down in a jungle inhabited by headhunters. Everybody is terribly worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows, is putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar Redmond O'Hanlon, a Manhattan cop, will have a book of Shakespeare puns on the stand this spring. Alice Morgan, 78, who won $32,000, has completed The Investor's Road Map for Simon & Schuster. And Operatic Cobbler Gino Prato recently signed a second $10,000-a-year contract with a rubber company as good-will ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Big Money | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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