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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throw Down the Gimlet. In Ipswich, Australia, arrested for drunken driving after he had spent three hours drinking rum, whisky, vodka, schnapps, wine and beer, Neville J. Eraser boasted: "I can still drink you cops under the table."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

U Nu himself got away with proclaiming that the army has its "sinners and wrongdoers" inclined to "fascism." The army does not want to make a martyr of him. But for repeating his slogans in villages two of his young partisans have been charged with sedition. When another U Nu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Struggle for Hearts | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

But the act went down together with vaudeville, pursued by child-welfare officers and cops hunting for the bales of towels Mother filched from hotels. To escape, Baby June eloped when she was 13 with one of the chorus boys, aged 18, outran Mama in a breathless chase to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Saga of Dainty June | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

No one batted an eye when I presented my tourist card with its "Occupation: Journalist." They quietly took my picture, checked me electronically for weapons, secretly searched my belongings, fastened a couple of plainclothes cops to me like leeches, and turned me loose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Visitor in Trujillolcmd | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The New Orderliness | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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