Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More squad cars and more cops hurried up. They began firing pistols and carbines. Craig scuttled around inside the house like a caged animal, firing back in vicious bursts-now from the front of the house, now from the side, now from the back. Glass smashed and tinkled, neighborhood women...
The cops tried a concentrated barrage with carbines, Tommy guns, pistols, and tear-gas guns. When silence fell, Craig began shooting again. Daring policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the...
The sweating cops hauled the gunman out, dead, with 18 slugs in his body. The crowds pressed into the yard, surged around the corpse, struggling, pushing and snatching for souvenirs.
One sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The...
Days On. Last week, the Daily News jolted Chicagoans with a spread of Hogarth-like pictures and the Mooney-Bird story of their 14 days in the land of "the living dead." In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three...