Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The cops winced. The record showed that Lodzinski and Davidowicz had grown up in Detroit as healthy, law-abiding kids. They were friends in high school, left town together in 1941 to join the Marines. They were months on Guadalcanal, Lodzinski as truck driver, Davidowicz as machine gunner.
The cops were puzzled, almost embarrassed by them. Lodzinski confided: "I don't know what's the matter with me. I can't stand things. Noise or people. I go funny." His record at the Veterans' Hospital in Dearborn was more expressive-50% of normal efficiency...
To his acquaintances, who had developed a studied indifference to his talk of crusades, "expo-ZAYS" and threats, the wonder was that anyone had wasted a bullet on Kasherman. He was a man of thin face and slickly pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer...
Last week Mike was in the Passaic jail. The hardened cops, a few with sons of their own in the service who must some day begin to adjust themselves to civilian life, treated Mike gently. The charges were serious: armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. But no one seemed...
But the fight, which took place one night last June, turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to San Antonio. For it inspired a 62-year-old criminal investigator in the sheriff's office to a brilliantly simple solution of the city's...