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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the supporting actors lift Rogue Cop out of its mediocrity. Olive Carey, as a scruffy old crone of a stool pigeon, is convincingly reluctant to sing for free. George Raft is the same old master of reptilian menace. The lesser cops and crooks look real enough, but Janet Leigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Finely Bred. In Phenix City, Ala., when three bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Down Three Dark Streets (Edward Small; United Artists), for a change, is one in which the cops are not the robbers. An FBI agent (Kenneth Tobey) is killed while pursuing an inquiry at a private house. Another agent (Broderick Crawford) is assigned to catch the killer. To do that, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bull Session | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

* Founder of the London police force and known as Bobbie the Peeler, after whom London cops are nicknamed bobbies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 9 O'Clock Walk | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Cheese It, the Cops. In National City, Calif., Mrs. Mary W. Kresky, charged with stealing 63?worth of cheese from a grocer, was acquitted after the evidence disappeared from the town's mouse-infested police headquarters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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