Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Louise Strong, longtime devoted follower of the U.S.S.R., arrived at La Guardia Airport last week all bundled up in a heavy fur coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia...
But in the summer of 1947 he made a mistake. He met a dark-haired girl named Gloria Horowitz in a Manhattan nightclub; he took her to Philadelphia, gave her some diamonds, told her to sell them for him in a jewelry store. A suspicious clerk called the cops. Dennis...
By the time the village clerk returned, Rensburg was the talk of the town and all Hennenman was scrubbing itself clean. The town clerk called the provincial health department, just to make sure that everything was all right. It wasn't: the health department knew of no such man...
The Polite Cops. Nanking people who remained tried to celebrate the New Year as best they could. In the back rooms of their stores, shopkeepers lit candles on their red altars for ceremonial offerings to the gods. Barbershops were doing a rush business, and fortune tellers were so sought after...
While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry.