Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the Pyramids. At police headquarters in Cairo, Zouzou announced that she wanted to be taken to the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. The cops shuddered: the Semiramis was full of tourists loaded with dollars who might not understand about Zouzou in her agitated state of mind. "Look, lady." pleaded a top...
By the dozens, the regime's opponents fled to asylum in foreign embassies; the Salvadorans had barely put 18 such guests on a departing airliner when twelve more showed up. Arbenz clamped on a state of emergency, drastically censored the press and cables. Secret police in black berets drifted...
Revolution? The end of uncensored news reports at once heightened the tension. Popular movie houses were deserted, business went to pot. Most shops and stores languished; groceries and gasoline stations, on the other hand, were mobbed by citizens who momentarily expected a revolution and wanted to stock up. But the...
Not long ago, the nation's most prominent amateur golfer and one of the game's leading professionals played a friendly round at Washington's Burning Tree Club. Professional Sam Snead was awed into unaccustomed silence by all the folderol that accompanied the game ("All them cops...
The Saracen Blade (Columbia) suggests that Hollywood may be getting as tired of making historical pictures as many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a...