Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A truck and a jeep full of pith-helmeted cops armed with rifles and Sten guns rolled up to Tegucigalpa's central Prado Hotel on election day last week and glowered at a jeering crowd of demonstrators from the Liberal Party, main opposition to the government of Chief of...
Tonight or Never. In Chicago, police jugged Herman Nolte on his wedding night after he celebrated by firing his shotgun from his front porch, stealing the squad car when cops turned up to investigate.
Atom Cannon. In Manhattan, although police testified that two patrolmen were knocked to the ground when Howard Simms's pistol accidentally discharged as one of them tried to unhook it from his belt, the court found Simms innocent of carrying a firearm, concluded the cops "must have been leaning...
The Killing. Only a cops and robbers item, but the skulduggery is skillfully controlled by Director Stanley Kubrick (TIME, June 4).
One night a howling mob of 1,000 whites, inflamed by a self-appointed foe of integration from Washington, D.C. named John Kasper, banged and battered the cars of Negroes passing through, blocked traffic, swamped and demoralized the local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were...