Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the cops got all the evidence they needed. Louis Métra parked his car on the fashionable Boulevard Suchet. got out and walked a few feet, then satisfied that he was not being followed, returned to his car for a small package of opium for a nobleman...
Riots & Petitions. The campaign on both sides provoked passions that boded no good for German democracy. Bruisers stood on guard at Socialist meetings; admission to Adenauer's meetings was by ticket only, to keep out hecklers. In some towns rivals clashed, and the police used batons and hoses. There...
The Swiss Watch. Still the cops did not try to storm the big house. As one of the masked men tried to leave the legation, he was captured by the cops. He said that he and his accomplices were all members of a Rumanian anti-Communist resistance movement and had...
Six Bottles of Pop. On evacuation day, when the Sophiatowners came out of their condemned homes, they found 2,000 armed policemen on guard at their front doors. The first trucks rumbled down Toby Street. Clustered on the sidewalk, a crowd of young Africans made ready to resist, but when...
By noon it was raining heavily. Mattresses, tables and clothing piled high on army trucks got drenched alongside their owners. But the rain dampened resistance, and by 6 p.m. 700 Sophiatowners-many from Toby Street-were lining up at Meadowlands to be issued a garbage can, a loaf of bread...