Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The FBI reported that rural crimes are on the increase (up 7.5% over 1946), urban crimes on the decrease (down 2.3%). In rural areas, rape cases alone jumped 13.6% in the first six months of 1947. As of April 30, the U.S. had 1.75 cops for every 1,000...
It took a special detachment of cops to get Taft and his wife through this milling throng and he was booed lustily during the momentary confusion which resulted. Taft announced-and probably correctly-that such picketing was helping his cause immensely.
Persia's Hamid Reza Pahlevi, 16-year-old brother of the Shah was not doing so well. The sad-eyed Prince, who played hooky from a U.S. summer school last June and shortly turned up in Paris, disappeared last from a Washington, D.C. school but got bagged again. He...
He played softball on the corner lot with the gang, occasionally earned pocket money by sneaking onto neighboring golf courses to retrieve lost balls. He could outrun the gang-and the cops-every time. But a stern talk from Ma Robinson put him out of business. She was, and is...
And Daves knows how to break players effectively out of type (Agnes Moorehead, who usually plays embittered spinsters, does handsomely in a sexy role). The picture is greatly enriched through minor characters and minor incidents. As added frights, the doctor and the crook are such well-conceived, well-played parts...