Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the Reds' cue to take over. The next morning, they shoved aside the more cautious student leaders, whipped up a mob and broke into the shopping center, toting clubs and torches. Interior Minister Mushtaq Gurmani drove up to make a personal appeal to the rioters. They trapped...
In a lonely Kenya ranch house some 60 miles north of Nairobi, Mrs. Dorothy Raynes-Simson, a cattle rancher, sat chatting with her partner, Kitty Hesselburger. There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook...
Delighted Los Angeles headline writers immediately christened the old lady "Grandma" and waited for her to "strike again." She did. On Nov. 26 she hit the Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank for $257. The cops were, confident that Grandma was the little old lady who got $2,600 from the...
On being held up, Mrs. Lorene McGehee, the teller, just called the bank manager, who hustled out and took Grandma's toy gun away from her. "I'm not Grandma," cried Grandma. But when the cops questioned her, she broke down.
Under the headline URUGUAYAN GOLD MEANT MORE TO HUGO DEL CARRIL THAN THE SORROW OF HIS PEOPLE, the scurrilous piece ironically invoked the memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying...