Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By 11 o'clock every night in Paris, the trucks are jammed into every narrow street from the Opera to the Louvre. Horns squawk, cops shout, taxi drivers curse and take long detours, but nothing helps until 9 o'clock the next morning when the trucks roar away...
Relief Pitcher. In Norwalk, Calif., William J. Pivar was booked on a charge of malicious mischief after he threw an ashtray through a police-station window, told the cops who came out and arrested him: "I feel better now."
Died. August Vollmer, 79, pioneer in the use of modern U.S. police methods, professor of police administration (1932-37) at the University of California; by his own hand after he told his housekeeper: "I'm going to shoot myself; call the Berkeley police"; in Berkeley, Calif. As Berkeley police...
That night, after returning from the party and retiring, said Ann Woodward, she was aroused by a noise. Taking up the shotgun at her bedside, she crept into the hallway that separated her bedroom from her husband's. In the gloom, she told the cops, she saw a "shadow...
Cops set up a makeshift 600-bed dormitory to shelter the meaner criminals, gave temporary freedom to lesser lawbreakers.