Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath his flexibility, Ky was prepared for trouble. Bypassing the national police, who last year proved unable to control student demonstrations in Saigon, he ordered the Military Security Service to keep close watch over all potential troublemakers. Commanded by Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a hard-drinking northerner who was Ky...
Park's warning was in response to week-long clashes between the police and student mobs numbering as many as 10,000. With more than 400 cops nursing wounds and bruises, Park declared garrison law and rushed the front-line 6th Division into the capital city of Seoul. Several...
Marcom is busy finding more uses for its invention. Last May, a San Jose, Calif., burglar learned about one of them. When he slipped open the window of a house whose owner was away on vacation, he unknowingly tripped a trigger that set the diverter to silently dialing the police...
When Shuttlesworth began reading the announcements during a Sunday service, Deacon Robert Pierce rose to declare that the trustees had called an open meeting to discuss Revelation's financial affairs. Shuttlesworth ruled him out of order, and 200 members of the congregation began chanting: "We want a meeting! We...
It looked as if a trap had been set for one of the nation's ten most wanted criminals. Lurking beside a crowded New York City parkway one noon last week were four busloads of police brass, 125 newsmen and a dozen patrolmen, including six cops in two prowl...