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Word: cops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAY'S ODD ODYSSEY | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...TREAT A LADY. A callow New York City cop (George Segal) dogs the elusive tracks of a killer (Rod Steiger) with a closetful of disguises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 17, 1968 | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Pennsylvania, however, won the junior varsity and freshman heavyweight contests, to cop the Rowe...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Heavy, Light Varsity Crews Win Sprints | 5/13/1968 | See Source »

...have red flags flying from the roof. I explain to a cop on the sidewalk below that these stand for revolution, not for Communism. He says yes, he remembers reading something about that...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...cops come in. The eight of us sit down on the stairs (which we've made slippery with green soap and water) and lock arms. The big cop says don't make it hard for us or you're gonna get hurt. We do not move. We want to make it clear that the police had to step over more chairs to get our people out. They pull us apart and carry us out, stacking us like cord wood under a tree. The press is here so we are not beaten. As I sit under the tree...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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