Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the pinch increased, Trujillo's brother Hector, who is the puppet President, wrote to the "Father of the New Fatherland" and "Financial Emancipator of the Nation" that it would be a "patriotic duty" for the bureaucracy to donate their December salaries to the cause. Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis...
The author's Greenwich Village days, for instance, have left him with what seems to be a permanent fascination with Hip-that freemasonry of the beard and the weird, whose lodge brothers Mailer tags "white Negroes" (although black Negroes also are members). Hipsters, writes Mailer admiringly, are "philosophical psychopaths...
With Spade and Marlowe as models, hardboiled Private Eye fiction began to crowd the polite puzzlers off America's bookshelves, was in turn hard pressed by the likes of Mickey Spillane and even, strange as it seemed, by mystery stories about honest, intelligent cops.
All this special Private Eye technique has opened up a new area of employment for talented extras, men who know how to simulate the absolute stillness of death (corpses are embarrassing when they breathe), who know how to wear a cop's uniform with ease. On location in Manhattan...
Piling Up the Evidence. In Tokyo, police raided their own photo lab at headquarters, found stacks of erotic pictures that other cops had confiscated, reproduced, and sold in sets of five and ten to eager customers.