Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Human Chains. In New York, Negroes kept up their demonstrations at construction sites to protest the dearth of "brown faces" (Negroes and Puerto Ricans) in the building trades. Negro children crawled under halted trucks, grinned as cops dragged them out. A group of youths stormed a crane, climbed to its...
Speedy Verdict. Apparently expecting the police to come for him, Martinis did not resist arrest, but at the police station he sullenly refused to take a drunkometer test. When two news photographers came into the room, Martinis suddenly went wild. He grabbed a photographer by the throat, clawed and kicked...
For the next four hours, patrol cars howled through the streets of Caracas in pursuit of patrol cars. The army sent troops and armored cars to join the fight; cops by the hundreds chased around frantically trying to sort out friend from foe. An order went out to legitimate police...
By the time government troops and police finally recaptured La Planta, the number of people killed-cops and jailbirds-was 10, while 52 were wounded. All told some 300 prisoners involved in the break actually made it outside the prison, and 52 of them were still at large by week...
The whole idea, Cassius insisted, was "to make Liston mad." One night Sonny slapped Clay's face when Cassius taunted him in a casino on the Strip. Just before the fight, Cassius bounced into the ring, solemnly shook Patterson's hand, started for Liston's corner-then...