Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cant, who is now training one of his two sons in the sport, has also organized an "area count" in the national Christmas census of birds-a tabulation of the numbers and kinds of birds in various areas in early winter. A similar count will be made next month. Last...
Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into...
Night after the massacre, a squad of Kimathi's men stormed a police outpost near Naivasha. Three cops were killed, and the Mau Mau set free 173 imprisoned suspects. They disappeared into the forest with 50 rifles, 25 submachine guns, and 9,000 rounds of ammunition.
Recently, White drifted through the swinging doors of the dim, dark-paneled bar of Quito's Hotel Majestic. In the next few days he spent a lot of time at a bar table, occasionally speaking in a low voice to chance acquaintances. Soon shifty-eyed visitors began coming to...
Teacher. In Morristown, Tenn., a prankster took a police prowl car from outside a restaurant and parked it eight blocks away, explained that he thought cops should be broken of the habit of leaving ignition keys in their cars and he just wanted to "teach them a lesson."