Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The dictator had little time to savor this success. Day after day, knotsof rioting students raced through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the...
To thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch...
¶Only the puck went unscathed in Boston last week when every Boston Bruin and Montreal Canadien swarmed out on the ice for a spectacular 14-minute brawl. After them skidded skateless cops, pratfalling through a Mack Sennett routine, while frantic officials whistled out a string of 27 penalties. At...
This sort of organization seems to be spreading. In thickly populated Eastern states the cops hamper even the more serious rocketeers, but in Texas, Utah and other states with plenty of room, many societies of intent teenagers, under proper supervision, are aiming their flame-tipped tubes at the sky.
Scott never reported the disappearance to the police. He was used to eccentric behavior in his hard-drinking wife, he later explained. When friends asked about Evelyn, Scott said that she was under treatment in a distant sanitarium. Ten months passed, and then at last the cops came around. Searching...