Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared...
When the patrol commander squeezed off some warning shots, most of the Mafiosi melted into the mountain woods. The rest, taking cover behind rocks or in the scraggy Calabrian underbrush, opened up with pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles, wounding seven cops and taking two injuries of their own in a...
Radicals "Oink!" at them and ordinary citizens ignore their pleas for help in the streets. Yet in California's San Mateo County, someone loves the police. In recent weeks, deputy sheriffs have been finding their squad car bumpers plastered with stickers that proclaim PIGS is BEAUTIFUL. But one just...
"You never think this could happen," one man said. "But it could happen to me." One lady, Miss Irenic Burns, had come over from South Cove where she said she was faced with a similar situation. "This was what the Jews did to the Arabs," she said. She looked out...
Running Amok. Belatedly, the Quebec provincial government called out 600 infantrymen and 300 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It also rammed through an emergency law ordering police and firemen back to duty by midnight under threat of heavy penalties, including fines of up to $100 a day per striker. Soon after...