Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brass Knuckles. Police had been tipped that a demonstration was coming, but they thought the demonstrators would use steps at the ends of the stage. Temporarily caught off base, the cops rushed in from the wings. One attacker, twisting Cole's foot, was wrestled until he let go; another...
Spoiled Sport. In Baltimore, spotted walking along the street at night clad only in shoes and a string of pearls, Bonita S. Schapiro, 25, was hustled off to the station house with a coat thrown over her, complained moodily to the cops: "Every time I try to have a little...
Paper Profits. In Montreal, an irate businessman asked the cops to X-ray the stomach of a colleague who had just torn up their tentative contract and eaten it.
"Please! Please!" This one represented, in effect, most of the population of the U.S. in the form of 250 reporters, photographers and movie and television cameramen. Because it was raining on deck, Grace appeared for her press conference in the Pool Café room, flanked by five pressagents and a...
A THOUSAND times a day. U.S. jukeboxes moaned out Sixteen Tons, a Tin Pan Alley folk song about a coal miner who is soul-deep in debt to his employer. The song landed with a sixteen-ton impact because of its tootling orchestration and Tennessee Ernie Ford's richly...