Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then police got their orders. Mounted cops charged the crowd; pistols were fired over heads. By nightfall, more than 100 men lay in Puerta del Sol's damp cells.
One night when he is sick in the infirmary, he listens at the bathroom wall with Sam Petrie and hears the buxom nurse and the school hero making love in the next room. Sam swears Anthony to secrecy, then blackmails the nurse and steals morphine, which he sells in town...
"The heights didn't bother us," said one of the freshmen. "We're used to mountain climbing. We wore all the proper clothing and everything, so there was no danger. The cops finally stopped us before we could actually reach Memorial's peak, as we were resting in the colonnades...
The cops agreed that the death was accidental, and did not hold him. Knowing no other way to earn a living, Aal decided to go on with the show. Perhaps, he said, he would train young Hubert to take his mother's place on the windmill.
The oldest TV sleuths are Ken Lynch of The Plainclothesman and Ralph Bellamy of Man Against Crime, who have spent the last five years laboriously tracking down evildoers. Most TV cops and private eyes have a tendency to lose their revolvers at crucial points in the narrative. This mishap insures...