Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No Goiaz cops seemed to be in any hurry to make an arrest. One police captain who had denounced Gurgel's murder to his chief was even disciplined for insubordination. But at week's end no cop had yet dared to erase from a plaster wall in the...
Shortly thereafter Crump's cops arrested a quiet little Memphis gasoline-station operator named James Edward ("Piggy") Moore. He was charged with vagrancy (although he had $300 in his pockets) and loitering (in his own gas station). Moore admitted that he had made extra money as a nighttime stickman...
At that, Crump's police retreated, told Moore: "As long as you conduct yourself properly, you will not be arrested." It was an awful comedown, but Crump grandly ignored it. "Please stay cool," he told his cops, "and keep up the good work with searching and steady eyes."
All week long the Communist overlords sought an effective answer to this commonplace but treasured little parcel. They spread rumors; they issued warnings;they made a few arrests; they seized thousands of food packages; they appealed to pride. They tried force. Twice they sent flying columns of 1,000 or...
The cops caught up with the speeding, old-fashioned Rolls-Royce and brought the woman driver to a stop. What, one of the officers asked, was that bundle on the floor? The answer: "Old clothes for the Salvation Army." But the bundle actually contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome...