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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A loudspeaker, a band holding a jam session, Radcliffe girls and Yard cops helped add to the general confusion prevalent in the Union during the week.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54 Ballots Today On Smoker Group | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

Art Is Long. In Merion township, Pa., John Dopp McGhee explained to cops how he happened to be in a parked car on a lonely road at night with a trumpet, a pistol, a rifle and cartridges: the firearms were to ward off anyone who might molest him while he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

The special had just pulled safely on to a siding beside Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium when the cops clapped two bystanders in jail because one said to the other: "If I had a gun, I could have bumped him off." (Later, they were released when they explained they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Four to Go | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Speaking at Rindge Tech auditorium with Louis B. Nichols, Assistant Director of the F.B.I., and Irving H. Saypol, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the topic, "Crime in the United States," Sprigle said, "Ten honest aggressive cops could wipe out the rackets in Boston. When you...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprigle States Police Fail To Enforce Laws | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

Clue. In Chicago, 23-year-old Harry Arnold Langham tauntingly mailed his photograph to Oklahoma City cops, who are trying to track him for forgery and car theft.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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