Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The comrades obliged. They organized the Ridgway riots (TIME, June 9), called a general strike of 2,000,000 Red-led workers. Both were disastrous flops. National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, France's No. 1 Communist, was tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there...
"My brother and I were left alone in our cell until evening. Then cops came, doused us with buckets of ice-cold water, and went away again, leaving us soaked and shivering. A few hours later, they came back . . . They made us undress, and blindfolded us. I was taken to...
Blows & Ice Water. "At daybreak, the cops returned and gave me back my clothes. I was blindfolded again, led into another room, and placed in a spinning chair. They spun it until I vomited with nausea. Then I was knocked to the floor, beaten with a rubber hose and doused...
The torturing of Mario Quiñónez could not be explained away as an isolated case, the work of a few sadistic cops. Other Guatemalans have been hauled off and tortured in recent months, often for no apparent reason except that they, like the brothers Quiñónez...
Although he claimed he hadn't had "anything to drink," barrel-shaped Comic Lou Costello apparently bowed to circumstantial evidence after he was hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of...