Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This ominous quiet is not out of the ordinary for Dartmouth weekends, however. Yard cops traditionally experience their greatest hardships between the hours of three and five a.m. on Saturday morning.
In a Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an...
Shortly after midnight, two detectives, who had been listening outside a rudely furnished three-room shack in Laurel Canyon, just back of Hollywood, fumbled at the kitchen door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet...
¶Kansas Citians were outraged. In unsportsmanlike fashion, their motorcycle cops disguised themselves in colored shirts, baseball caps, or airmen's jackets, hauled in unsuspecting speedsters in baffled droves.
Time for a Protest. For a fortnight the city's two police forces had been seizing vehicles from each other. Last week the Communist police chief sued to recover an automobile which, he said, the West Berlin police chief had wrongfully impounded. Germans noted the disappearance of several men...