Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For a few hours he was a hero. Attendants at Newport's Pacific Communities Hospital felt that he might well have saved Meuler's life. But State Police Sergeant William Colbert was not so sure. Though Thomson insisted that the demonstrator's front wheels had locked, the...
"You Look Black." All but one of the Pekes were left home last week, but the marquis' ballet dancers were on hand to entertain his guests with a performance of Swan Lake. For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely. To...
In the Mexico of the past, graft and corruption in high and low places was accounted part of the very system of government. Drawing salaries too low to support their families, petty bureaucrats, cops and inspectors took their "bite" as a legitimate and necessary part of their living. In the...
Once Potts discovers that he is carrying top-secret papers, the film switches from an agreeable spoof of security agents to a slapstick comedy of Keystone Cops vintage. Trying desperately to hide the plans, Potts teeters on the window ledge of a Moscow hotel, temporarily loses himself among the parading...
Some groups are tougher. It took him three years, Kinsey likes to recall, to win the confidence of "the Times Square underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping...