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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ground Stroke. In Windsor Locks, Conn., when the cops made broad insinuations about Kaston Gailius by testifying in court that when they nabbed him, his eyes were watery, his face was flushed and he could not pick up a coin from the floor, Gailius won an acquittal by explaining that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Grated Nerves. The Maryland Chemical Center resentment flared one night last September after 100 ESPPs hired a nearby boat club for a party. Togged in civilian clothes, they drank beer, played bridge, settled down to sing homemade songs.* Irked by the noise and obscenity, neighbors called the cops. State troopers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Soldier-Scientists | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Pressman's defense last week was flashy but futile. He challenged officers assigned to sit on the court until the court was left with only one major and two warrant officers. He argued that the cops had no evidence that the accused were noisemakers, produced neighbors who said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Soldier-Scientists | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

But Cuba was only going through the motions. Between them. Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Rebel Chief Fidel Castro had throttled all chances of democratic process in this week's presidential election. Cuba's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, sitting as arbiter of election disputes, is a Batista tool. Batista'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Trappings of Election | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

¶ The Naked and the Dead, in which Stripper Lili St. Cyr gets about halfway through her act before the cops raid the joint. (Article V, Section 1: "Dances suggesting sexual actions are . . . obscene.")

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Decoded | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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