Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was about then that sophisticated New Yorkers knew that the Mad Bomber was not just whistling through his teeth; the sensation-loving papers cheerfully nursed the tautening nerves. Off the presses came a rash of interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, jewelers, bomb experts, handwriting experts, cops, scientists. Columnists discoursed learnedly...
At week's end the papers, thirsty and cunning in a news-dry holiday period, were still going strong. Everybody but the cops was enjoying the thrill. But there was not a man in his right mind who dared to buy a cheap watch, a small piece of pipe...
Strongman Batista conferred at length with his top military and police chiefs on ways to curb the spreading revolutionary fervor. Cops with rifles and machine guns went on guard at railroad stations and public buildings. Planes and warships patrolled the coasts.
Opening night was riotous even by Broadway standards. Housemen and city cops had a hard time handling the shoving, yelling crowd fighting to get in. The new Roseland-a former roller-skating rink-cost $2,250,000 to build, can accommodate 5,000 people (more than twice the former capacity...
Sea & Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...