Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The busiest group in New Haven tonight was the traffic police squad. Part of it was trying to unscramble the unbelievable jams which kept motorists hungry and thirsty. The rest of the traffic cops were going about the grim task of ticketing hundreds of out-of-state autos parked out...
Davis and friends piled into a car and rolled north on Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble...
Eugene Acevedo Granillo was only 20 years old, had no business hanging around a bar, and didn't know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a...
O'Dwyer held to his attitude of grand disdain. He admitted that a few wire rooms were running, but he had 300 cops chasing bookies and could not in good conscience spare more for the job. The taxpayers' children, he intoned, had to be helped across dangerous streets...
City Editor Gene Lowall of the Denver Post (circ. 237,061) collects crimes with the passion that other men lavish on postage stamps and Ming vases. A onetime crime reporter himself, he likes to swap stories with Denver cops, spends his spare hours reading and writing whodunits, calls his reporters...