Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every night in the week a handful of Manhattan cops take up their routine posts around Eighth Avenue and 49th Street. While they boredly chomp their gum, inside Madison Square Garden thousands of New Yorkers goggle at circuses and rodeos, listen to politics, yell their heads off at prize...
Last week Andrei Gromyko, Russia's representative to U.N., appeared at a Garden rally sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. While spotlights beat down on him, he launched an oblique attack on the U.S.: "[U.N.s'] early activities have revealed a tendency on the part of...
In San Francisco, the film was collared by the cops, cleared by a jury trial in municipal court. Said Judge Twain Michelsen: "I cannot bring myself to the legal conclusion that the picture . . . has left you ladies and gentlemen of the jury in a state of moral suspense, or of...
TIME Correspondent Donald Newton arrived a half hour early, and took up his stand before a restaurant on the square, the Taverna Carioca. A hot wind, the kind cariocas call a suicide wind, blew down from the mountains and put everyone on edge. In the crowded square hundreds were lined...
In Montreal's teeming Hochelaga tenement district last week, five moppets played cops & robbers in an alley behind a branch of the Banque Canadienne Nationale. Suddenly a man with a gun in his hand came tearing out of the bank, pursued by a yelling clerk. This was the real...