Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protocol officers soon were deep in the matter of an honor guard to greet the visitor, since occupied Austria has no soldiers. First they thought of using cops, but switched to postmen after reflecting that cops might look like an arresting party. Finally, they went back to cops.
It was perhaps unfortunate that the 1951 Packard assigned to meet Haile Selassie broke down, that the cops completely forgot their rigid eyes-front attitude and gazed instead with open curiosity as Haile Selassie strolled past. But then, it had been a long time between emperors, and Viennese could be...
Black Stone. The two women looked around the room. In one corner of the ceiling was a jagged hole, and on the floor lay a black, glb. stone. If it had just arrived from interplanetary space, Mrs. Hodges could claim to be the first fully authenticated case of a human...
Agents Aplenty. Apparently, however, Sotgiu himself was not entirely healthy. The police frequently saw his big, black official car stopping discreetly in front of the houses of ill repute. Shortly before or after her husband's arrival, Liliana Sotgiu would appear on foot. The cops put 110 agents on...
In Naples, a six-man commission of solid citizens and cops grilled onetime U.S. Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 57, deported from the U.S. in 1946. After keeping him squirming on the hot seat for half an hour, the six unanimously decided that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well...