Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he left the "walls," Angel had settled on a guiding principle: the cops can't beat a well-organized gang. He rounded up a tough reform-school graduate named Frank Matyasevic to act as his "enforcer," and then began recruiting young hoodlums for the Green Street Counts-"the...
Balboa's harried cops arrested 36 minors for possession of liquor, 122 for lesser offenses, and fired 150 others back home to their parents for safekeeping. Before the week ended, many an irate citizen in both Balboa and Fort Lauderdale was crying that all the tourist money in the...
The campaigning is rough. Johannesburg's Afrikaans Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's...
To turn the city's strikes into riots required only a little Communist know-how. The Reds moved in with a front called The Committee Against the High Cost of Living, and called on the workers to assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city'...
Next day the Reds called for another hunger march, but cops sprayed Red headquarters near the cathedral with tear gas, and rounded up 31 weeping Communists on a rooftop. They were jailed, but the strikes continued. On Easter Sunday, while pickets patrolled suburban factories, an uneasy peace lay over S...