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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dipping-ln. In Seoul, Korea, after a crowd and a lot of cops gathered while a suspect re-enacted the holdup of a watch store, six cases of pocket-picking were reported.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Many were the kinds of fixes, testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How It Was Done | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Tempestuous Diva Maria Callas gave her first U.S. recital of the season in Kansas City, Mo., showed a celebrity-studded white-tie S.R.O. audience that she is as great a performer as she is a singer. Told that a bomb may have been planted under the stage of the Midland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Out on Limb. In Denver, Entrepreneurs John Robinson and Vernon Clark were charged by cops with practicing professional tree surgery without a license -and while drunk.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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