Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The people down there certainly were cooperative. Only the cops gave us any trouble when we started gathering crowds," Alden said. When the representatives of Boston Law & Order discovered the subtle Harvard hand behind the movie-making, they grumbled, "Well you guys can be expected to do damn near anything...
Gnarled police mitts tightened around their billies when four limousines screeched to a halt in front of the director's critical eye. Satisfying neither the director nor the cops, beefy celluloid "capitalists' then piled in and out of their equipages all morning.
¶ After a lobster fisherman found a 1748 Portuguese doubloon in the sand flats of New Jersey's Shrewsbury River, gold-hungry citizens swarmed over the spot by the hundreds, set to work with pails, rakes and shovels, found about 15 more coins before angry cottage-owners called the...
The tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard...
Koppers Cops. Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc. got a Government contract to build a $4,413,250 plant to make oil from coal near Louisiana, Mo. It was the fourth Government-sponsored synthetic oil plant authorized since 1944 (the others : an earlier oil-from-coal plant at Louisiana, Mo...