Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The ordinary citizen has long since silenced his talk of freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime...
¶ In New Mexico James Stokes told of an egg-shaped U.F.O. that sped overhead leaving "a kind of heat wave like radiation from a giant sun lamp." ¶ In Chicago, two cops and a fireman chased a ball of light in a squad car.
"You could well examine your own motivations for taking a course in Criminology," Dr. William McCord tells the one hundred and fifty students at the beginning of the course more commonly called "Cops and Robbers." When asked what is responsible for his own interest in the criminal mind, he replies...
On the Way Out. Only the New York cops seemed genuinely stirred. Al had hardly been lugged out of the hotel before they were questioning the first of hundreds of underworld characters. The two killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the...
The government replied by calling a 30-day state of siege, and charged Ydigoras with plotting in connivance with "Communist groups." Some 300 helmeted troops and cops, armed with Tommy guns and armored cars, deployed before the National Palace, but the raging mob formed again, and charged until driven off...