Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For two weeks-long before Ike was sure he could get away-Secret Service advance men had thoroughly cased Palm Springs for security. By the time he arrived, after a fast 9½-hour flight across the country, two transcontinental telephone circuits were in readiness, linking Ike's temporary...
Grays slumbered through the nineteenth century and remained undisturbed by modern innovations until 1921. But amid unheated rooms and gas lights, there were some compensations. Grays proved the ideal spot for dropping water bombs on passing Yard cops, and its decadent fixtures inspired residents to make their own electrical gadgets...
Overwhelming Welcome. "Good on you, Liz and Philip," cried Australians, as they shoved the cops aside to get a glimpse at the Queen. Elizabeth shook hands with 72 dignitaries, then drove through ten miles of deafening cheers to put a wreath on the Cenotaph and attend a luncheon. She found...
While Sir Hugh laid wreaths and visited museums, some other travelers inconspicuously departed from Haiti. Senator Marcel Hérard, a political foe of Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from...
Monuments & Dancing. Today, Freiburg's cops can look forward to quiet evenings. Judge Härringer's boys' town now has 300 members, most of them on probation for petty theft. They proudly call themselves "the Härringer Boys," have a spacious new civic center donated...