Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Instruction. The cops found the house unrobbed and untouched, and no sure clue as to how the housebreaker had come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and...
The cops scoured Staten Island, picked up suspects, kicked up lawns looking for a knife. They groped for explanations, e.g., maybe the killer was a psychotic from the hospital, checked records, bars, neighbors. But neither dragnet nor theories helped the Nimers. Soon after they were carried out and neighbors took...
Guide Piper. In San Antonio, when a knife-wielding hood accosted Jose Martinez Jr., Jose went right on walking, parried the man's threats until he had led him to the police station, where cops made the arrest.
Lead & Solidarity. The all-out terror lasted two days. The government seemed to abdicate. No administration wants to appear anti-working class. Finally, a platoon of troops and cops ordered by Governor Ernesto P. Uruchurtu drove the marauders back to their campuses.
The problem attacked by WIND and three other Westinghouse stations is real enough: 40% of ninth-graders in Chicago -and in the rest of the U.S.-do not go on to graduate from high school. But WIND, puffing a popular cause, peddles education with an announcer's No-Cal...