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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sevim Tari is a young (28), pretty Turkish girl of good family. What makes her unusual in Turkey is that she is also a Communist. Daughter of a high-ranking Turkish police official now dead, she studied medicine in Turkey, attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Two years ago she got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Like Nightingales | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

During the third quarter of last year's Dartmouth game, a lone and blissful drunk wobbled from the stands and threw his arms around the north goal post. While he and the post swayed in unison, Boston police swung into action. A Keystone Cops chase with a Sonnet style pile...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Goal-Post Menders Have Weekly Job | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

Quite aware of the potential of the locale and its personalities, Swanson has chosen a piece of ironical whimsey for his script. A wiry youth with the agility of a Douglas Fairbanks and the garb of a Broadway bopster steals a 40 pound donation from the coffers of the local...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Pennywhistle Blues | 10/21/1953 | See Source »

Hager was scared, so scared that he called St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders, telling him: "I've got a guy that's really hot. He's throwing away money and lots of it. He's got a big gun, and he's drunk and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Man with Soft Hands | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

At first, hardheaded Marshal Tito reacted with comparative mildness. The Anglo-American plan was, in fact, almost identical to one the British say Tito approved privately less than a year ago in talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, except that the new plan does not try to freeze the division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIESTE: Storm over the Adriatic | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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