Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, for example, trouble developed last year between local youths and the freshmen who allegedly poured water down on them, the Yard cops took one bursar's card, mollifying the youths, pacifying the students. The bursar's card was later returned, and more serious trouble was thus averted.
In the little town of Carpineti in Emilia, a frustrated Communist named Guerrino Costi peered through an inn window at a party of celebrating antiCommunists, fired several shots into the crowd, killing two. When cops grabbed him, Costi said: "I wanted to teach a lesson to the parish priest and...
In teeming Karachi, swollen with a million refugees, energetic Pakistanis went about business as usual. Whatever legal confusion there might be to litigants, drovers with their camel carts and cabbies in their ancient Kaiser sedans still obeyed Karachi's traffic cops. Ghulam called a new "constituent convention" of 60...
The first rains of the monsoon showered down upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed...
In Hollywood, Warner Bros, announced that it had signed a contract with ABC to produce 39 hour-long film shows for Tuesday-night showings next fall. Based on three oldtime Warner hits, Casablanca, King's Row, and Cheyenne, the series allots Warner six minutes per show to plug current...