Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The New York cops knew by the head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank...
Harvard men are easy marks for local gamblers, according to a report in Friday's Yale Daily News. The Elis, trailing after a CRIMSON article on Square gambling, quoted an unidentified Cambridge resident as claiming that Harvard men are "striped tie punks. The cops will never keep us from fleecing...
In inviting New York's slick-haired Gambler Frank Costello to testify about gambling, the U.S. Senate had been strictly high class all the way: it had not only communicated with him in a manner befitting his station (i.e., through his attorney) , but had arranged to have cops at...
Then the cops revisited her room, heard a muffled cry across a narrow hall. They tore open a locked closet door. A baby carriage stood behind it. Inside, tenderly swathed in an electric heating pad lay the baby-alive and well.
For four days last week, up to 20,000 of New York City's 212,000 high-school students deserted their classrooms for an unseemly orgy of picketing, riotous parading, catcalling and general defiance of the school board, Mayor O'Dwyer, and several hundred New York cops and...