Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One morning last week Bad Boy leaned out the window of the second-story furnished room where he had holed up in Chester. A knot of men were standing below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked...
In a few minutes the cops came-78 city, county and state policemen. They started shooting revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming...
The rebels approached Sunchon city peacefully; but as soon as they entered the city, police opened fire. Joined by a company of soldiers guarding the city bridge, the rebels fired back. After a short, sharp battle they were in full control. The hundred or so cops who surrendered were lined...
Is the convicted Nazi general really guilty? The question stirs some qualms in his idealistic prosecutor, a U.S. Army major (Ray Milland). Major Milland's search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort...
Acting on McWhorter's orders, University police turned back the first few Democrats at the door. Yard cops told a vanguard of 25 students that "No one is coming in after 12 o'clock. We're closing in an hour."