Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I remember a night in the Albany city jail. It was after a demonstration, the Negro cell block was crowded past humanity, and on the white side, two or three of us "white-niggers" were sprinkled among the drunks and hustlers. We had been singing freedom songs, loud and happy...
The black voice from the white cell was a perfect affirmation, and an affront to the cops--it rang with contempt for them. And then it was brave, and so inspired bravery. There was sudden intense applause, and a thunderous burst of song:
In Communist East Europe, commissars and cops do it. In Rome and Madrid, moppets in dancing class do it. Frenchmen perform the ritual with sinuous grace, Spaniards smackingly, Germans with a click of the heels. However widely their techniques may vary, Europeans from Barcelona to Bialystok in recent years have...
Mounties chase seaborne and lake-borne smugglers in 32 R.C.M.P. vessels, from zippy motorboats to oceangoing patrol craft. There is a Mountie air force of 18 planes and helicopters that acts as a search and rescue service. In their grey stone Ottawa headquarters, the Mounties have access to the most...
There once had been talk of disbanding the Peace Corps Project in Brazil. The first few months had been a miserable experience. And the Cops' sloppy selection and training program did not help matters. But the Peace Corps has seen its errors, and moved swiftly to correct them. The Corps...