Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lovers and little children are unwelcome around the University these days. Yard cops are under orders to chase away anyone who so much as crouches on the inviting green grass. The Yard was beginning to look too much like a public park, said officials.
Grandmother Wept. Not until a few weeks ago, ten years after the golden opportunity had first been offered, did one victim finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days...
Four hours later and two miles away, Lawyer Marvin Bas was caught and shot down by two gunmen in the shadow of the Chicago El. Chicago's Keystone cops skittered busily around town trying to run down a lead to the killers. But wherever they looked for big shots...
After its first indignation at the discovery that Brooklyn cops had been taking a million dollars a year in bribes from bookies. New York City seemed to relax and enjoy the scandal. This was due, in part, to a certain reluctant civic pride in the proportions of the skulduggery. But...
Sputtering Cops. While all this was going on, the Brooklyn grand jury which had been laboring for nine months to obtain evidence of police corruption went about its chores with fire-breathing enthusiasm. By last week the jury was happily frying droves of cops on its griddle like so many...