Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Los Angeles, Crime Entrepreneur Mickey Cohen (TIME, Aug. 1) went a long way toward proving himself the first U.S. hoodlum with an uncontrollable gift of gab. Instead of preserving a sullen silence when it developed that the cops had been eavesdropping on him through microphones hidden in his house...
Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and...
"Open Up!" The bullet creased the head of a baby in a nearby yard and Craig went back inside his rooms, slammed the door and waited for the inevitable squad car. When the cops arrived he answered their yell of "Open up!" by firing three shots through the door. That...
A thousand Jews, mostly D.P.s from nearby camps, set out for the Süddeutsche's offices. Munich police nervously phoned U.S. Military Government, were told that since the demonstration had no permit, the police could go ahead and) break it up. Cops formed a line in the path...
When students at Brazil's Rural University went on strike last week against the wretched food served in the university cafeteria, Rural's President Rocha Lagoa called the cops. Armed with Tommy guns and tear gas, red-capped Special Police roared up to the campus, but found nothing...