Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The 17 were charged with a plot "to overthrow the government [and] incite seditious strikes," but actually the heart of their offense was that they were Basques. In May 1951, when labor unrest broke out in Spain, Vitoria's 5,000 workers stayed quietly at home for five days...
Nobody liked the edict. "With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even...
But no matter how much damage they did, the motormen were protected by their labor contract; the company was bound to pay for their defense. As a result, streetcar crewmen were ordered out of uniform and into civilian clothes so that they could hastily mingle with the crowd and disappear...
All to no purpose. Beloved in the '90s, Sherlock Holmes is in tiptop legendary health today. He has not even been killed by the deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the...
On Sunset Island No. I in Miami's yacht-clogged Biscayne Bay, Marianne Reynolds, who got $2,000,000 and a divorce in 1952 from Tobacco Heir Richard J. Reynolds Jr., sang a $35,000 swan song. Soon off to luxuriate in California, Marianne said farewell to Florida in...