Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"No, judge," Joe said, "you're just going to make him bitter. Just as bitter as I am. I was in jail. I know what they did to me there." There was a murmur in the packed courtroom. Joe looked defiant. "Sure I was in jail," he said. "I...
Unrehearsed. Joe paused. The courtroom was quiet. After a while, he went on: "Look, Your Honor, it's not us kids. It's the neighborhood. We ain't got no place to go. Do you want us to stay home seven nights a week? Look, we go...
Then fire engines, police cars, ambulances and taxicabs began drawing up. Emergency floodlights bathed the shattered cars in an unearthly brilliance. Cops, firemen and workmen with big jacks scrambled toward the cars; doctors and nurses crept and crawled up ladders and into the wreckage, hypodermic needles in hand. Welders began...
Ninety-Four Pages. Last week, with Monnet still presiding over the blueprint, the six nations' experts whipped the historic document into shape at their Paris headquarters in the Rue Martignac behind the Chamber of Deputies. The building was as busy as a beehive. At the ground floor entrance, motorcycle...
The council social workers used the slow approach. They began by loafing near gang hangouts, gradually drawing the boys into conversation, playing the jukebox with them, letting them cadge occasional cigarettes. As distrust faded, the council men identified themselves, proved that they were not cops and not out to nag...