Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Man on a Bike. Dag followed family tradition, went into government service. He was Under Secretary of Finance in charge of the Budget at 31. At night, Stockholm cops would point to a single light burning in the Treasury building and say, "Hammarskjold's still counting." Occasionally he would...
The following fall, the first real pangs of prohibition began to rise at the College. One of the University's more casual bootleggers published his own exclusive story in the CRIMSON explaining that the students could no longer trust the "hypocritical state cops" who were, incidentally, responsible for the arrest...
In casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and...
Now we are prone to consider such mutual responsibilities as savage and barbaric. But what have we substituted? Perhaps we have a longing for it. Maybe delinquency stems from just exactly this. The kids, not finding it at home and apparently needing it, build gangs to which they give their...
Caught up in one domestic crisis after another in a nation historically hobbled by poverty, Tito tempered his doctrinaire Marxism with pragmatism. Explained one official: "If it works, it's socialism, if it doesn't, we throw it out." "What they have in Russia is not Communism at...