Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his train finally did come, detectives covered the roof, protecting him from every possible angle. Only those with special permission were allowed on the platform. The same stringent protection was in evidence all the way up Summer Street, with cops and detectives lining the way, making it impossible to...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was...
Bellevue is not only one of the biggest but probably the most notorious municipal hospital in the U. S. It is best known to tabloid readers as the place where many sordid metropolitan melodramas reach their end. It is also a place where poor people can get complete medical service...
Today Bellevue is a $23,000,000 plant, a group of 17 buildings, staffed by 231 interns and resident physicians, 660 visiting doctors, 543 student nurses, 980 graduate nurses. It costs the city some $5,000,-ooo a year. In 1939 there were 68,485 admissions; 14,092 operations; 29...
Enraged, Iron Guardsmen swarmed aboard another locomotive in the Timisoara railway yards, forced the engineer at pistol point to chase the Hohenzollern special. Like Keystone cops, other Guardsmen piled cursing into Timisoara taxis, bounced off full speed in a wild chase to head off the train at Jimbola on the...