Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strained Relations."Now, right enough, the police had made a dab at me in 1939, but I had got a whisper and had just time to sidestep. It was this way. The British King & Queen took it into their heads to visit the U.S. while I was still there, and...
So, after seven years in the city, he "went on the cops." He attended the school for recruits, made the grade, and was assigned to a night beat on the Brooklyn waterfront. For the next seven years, he wore a cop's uniform. He learned many things: that it...
One foray went awry. In Mexico City, recently, cops jailed the proprietors of ten dress shops, quietly let them go a few hours later. The frocks were Mexican-made. So were the small black labels with "Made in America" in gold lettering.
Lean, sandy Roy Harris is a composer; he also has to eat. One spring day, he recalls, "it suddenly occurred to me that I was living in a ... civilization where cops and janitors and everyone else got paid for being what they were-everybody except composers ... So I decided never...
The Little Now. Despite all the bustle and the big talk, anyone who bought a television set last week would have to be a sport fan, a connoisseur of antique films, or a man with a lot of patience. Most stations telecast only four hours a day. With some exceptions...