Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The U.S. Army turned down the New York City Police Department's plea that the return of former policemen be speeded, told the cops to wait their turn. In the U.S.S.R. they do things differently: Red Army generals took a look at the crime statistics presented to them by...
CBS Soundman Carl Pezzuto forgot to close his third floor Manhattan window before testing the Texaco Fire Chief siren and bell. A crowd gathered in the street below and two cops with guns drawn barged into the sound studio. Few radio sound effects get such startling results, but radio'...
In the U.S. zone, anti-U.S. organizations began to crystallize. Most of them consisted only of a dozen or so young men who just seemed fond of playing cops & robbers. So. in their early days, did some of Adolf Hitler's brown shirts.
Then Canadians heard ominous news. Ontario's Attorney General Leslie Blackwell sent 250 Ontario provincial police from Toronto to reinforce Windsor's cops. He followed it up by asking Ottawa for Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen. He got 200. Besides, 300 Regular Army troops from Chatham were held outside...
Against the Wall. Things began to happen. Soldiers & sailors turned up, bought drinks, chased the pickets. Someone called the cops. Reporters and photographers appeared, made pictures, listened to Danny say, "They've got me up against the wall. . . ." The next day almost all Manhattan newspapers blossomed with stories, a...