Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police...
Largely to appease the cops, hard-pressed Romans revived the prewar custom of handing out gifts to the police on Feast of the Epiphany-Jan. 6, the day on which Italian children get their Christmas presents. (The gifts are brought by Befana, a green-shawled lady who travels on a...
At every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of...
Everybody hoped that such generosity would make Rome's cops a little more lenient with individualism-either the jaywalking or the horn-blowing variety.
But the situation was worst in France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and...