Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Caesar. Giving orders in New York gangdom was one unwieldy bird named Antonio Corallo, known to cronies and cops as Tony Ducks-a title bestowed in praise of his ability to avoid convictions on all but two of his twelve arrests since 1929. A beefy, movie-style heavy, Tony...
But this is treatment which Neapolitans thought was reserved for strangers. Naples was shocked to the core last week to hear that Neapolitans had been doing something like this to each other-and in city hall, at that. On a muggy 99° evening, thousands swarmed about the 700-year...
It's the Heat. In Milwaukee, arrested on charges of battery and reckless use of firearms after beating his wife and holding four cops at bay for an hour with a .30-. 30 rifle and 12-gauge shotgun, John Manyo, 44, surrendered, pleaded that he is "high strung."
Half Slave. The crowd was strangely quiet, almost as chilly as the Finns who looked Khrushchev over in Helsinki last June. As the inevitable flaxen-haired girls skipped forward with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily...
To this day. oldtime graduates of Richardson's don't-come-back-without-it school tremble at his name. Says Richardson Alumnus Robert W. Kenny, former California Attorney General: "The palms of my hands still sweat when I talk to that man on the phone." Though his rages...