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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

The Street with No Name. Cops & robbers, semi-documentary style, with Richard Widmark and Mark Stevens (TIME, Aug. 9).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

The parade halted. Leaders indignantly shouted back to their followers, "Les flics ne veulent pas qu'on passe!" (The cops won't let us pass.) The answer was a sullen rumble.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Counterpoint | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Bill Bingham's nice white goalposts lasted about 15 seconds before being shredded into a thousand souvenirs. The boys didn't care which goalposts they took. Just so they were white and standing was all that mattered. The cops in blue guarding them just sort of disappeared. Maybe they were...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: Riotous Crimson Partisans Rip Up Goalposts, Yale Men | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Post-game football riots over the goal-posts got their first start in those early days. They were somewhat more extensive in the early 1900's than now since local police have finally wised up and now place cordons of blucoats around the posts. There once was the time when...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Gridiron Traditions Wax and Wane But Liquor Runs as Steady Favorite | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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