Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the hot afternoon sun some 15,000 New Yorkers and tourists jammed the sidewalks outside Manhattan's new showplace Coliseum one day last week, while more than 50 cops held the bulging lines. Soon a string of limousines pulled up. Out stepped the President of the U.S., the...
As July 4, 1959 rolled westward from the international dateline, U.S. outposts, embassies and ships at sea broke out the nation's new 49-star flag, signaling Alaska's entrance into the Union. On Guam the 809 Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army, claimed the honor of raising the first...
La Plume de Ma Tante. A French revue as funny and almost as silent as a Keystone Cops movie (recess July 6-Aug. 3).
Obviously, reasoned the Queens, the government was really trying to eliminate competition against government beer. Determined to protect their pin money, 300 women, some with babies on their backs and all armed with sticks or pick handles, stormed the Cato Manor beer hall. They snatched glasses out of the men...
Creativity, one of man's highest qualities, is one of the least understood. It is not sheer volume of work or novelty of expression; it is not always virtuous. Creativity is what Feodor Dostoevsky had: a tremendous capacity for sustained, self-motivated work-despite an untidy outer life that...