Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two Compton cops had been watching the whole performance. They charged in, yelling. Tommy and the three girls got into the car and drove off as the cops began shooting. But the policemen caught Larry Collins, the 14-year-old recruit. He talked. A little later the police converged on...
The kids bought ice cream and hot dogs from shining blue trailers (the Communists had specially lowered the price of hot dogs for the occasion). They rode merry-go-rounds and Ferris wheels. Giggling girls had their pictures taken with genial Soviet G.I.s. The rally's propa- ganda motif...
Police terrorism, a heritage from the Japanese, has abated in the last year, but is not yet ended. Korean police cr.n still make the average citizen's life a misery of forms, identification cards, curfews and rigid interrogations. The tricky job of making the police behave is in well...
San Francisco, mortally afraid that it would be credited with fewer than the 827,000 inhabitants who were officially counted during a special census in 1945, was sending cops, firemen, and meter readers out to track down uncounted citizens. Seattle, which has 508,096 names in its city directory, had...
After a short conversation with Yale Joel, a Life photographer, the four were surrounded by apprehensive Boston cops. "It's guys like you who are always trying to make a joke out of a serious thing," said a lieutenant, casting a proprietary glance on 10,000 bean-eating Bostonians.