Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after two months of such goings-on, Huq and his government were deposed on Ali's orders and Defense Secretary Iskander Mirza was sent in to restore law & order. Tough, Sandhurst-trained Mirza drove to his new headquarters at Government House in Dacca along a five-mile...
When the police finally stopped the fighting, some 50 persons (including 24 cops) had been injured by punches, kicks, scratches, bites, falls, or blows inflicted by undetermined objects. Next day Shigeru Yoshida called on Emperor Hirohito to apologize for the obloquy that Japanese legislators had brought on their country. In...
In the West Royal Avenue house, the cops found four small TNT bombs, three hand grenades and a .45 pistol. From a house near by they hauled a former congressman who admitted that he had just been talking to Sánchez Arango. When police asked him about what, the...
While 1,000 cops and soldiers were still searching the district, President Batista put on a show of unruffled calm and laid the cornerstone for a new municipal hospital. At the same time Cubans added a new word to their vocabularies, inspired by Aureliano Sánchez Arango's...
Out on a shopping expedition near his Manhattan apartment, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, 63, strolled past a, five-story tenement, was squarely conked on the head by an old, wicker-seat armchair that mysteriously dropped from the building's roof. After cops surmised that...