Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Killing. Only cops and robbers, but the skulduggery is skillfully controlled by Director Stanley Kubrick (TIME, June 4).
No Time for Sergeants. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunken driving, Archie Ransom gave police a handwriting specimen reading, "I love you; I love you," was fined $150 after he told the judge that he harbored no such affections for the cops: "I guess I must have been thinking of my...
After Due Consideration. In Madison, Wis., after she deliberately backed into her husband's car, Mrs. Erwin Heldt told the cops: "I did it because he bumped into mine last week."
The Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts."
Time for a Change. In Anderson, S.C., charged with malicious mischief after he set off two sticks of dynamite at a political rally, ex-Convict Andes ("Footsie") Wood explained to cops: "I did it just to liven up the meeting a bit. I couldn't see who was talking...