Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When 500 hastily summoned foot and mounted police tried to force them back, the protest demonstration exploded into a savage, three-hour melee provoked partly by Communists in the crowd. Crying "Fascists" and "Gestapo,'' the workers dropped lighted cigarettes into police horses' mouths, tried to drag the...
Bidault did not leave Munich without a vow to "continue my fight against De Gaulle until freedom has been restored in my country.'' Landing in Portugal under an assumed name, he was given even less chance to plot against De Gaulle's life than he enjoyed in...
With Bidault on ice, De Gaulle turned his attention to the continuing, crippling strike of 188,000 miners in the nationalized coal fields of northern France, who were demanding wage scales on a par with workers in private industry. Rumors circulated that S.A.O. members, disguised as cops, would attack the...
The Wrong Arm of the Law. The Sellers Syndicate, as students of cinema crime are well aware, long since wrested control of London's underworld from the Lavender Hill Mob. Smart Alec Guinness went south for his health, and a report from Arabia indicates that he has moved in...
The marchers filed through the circular driveway and onto the grounds in front of the statehouse in Columbia, S.C. They carried signs reading DOWN WITH SEGREGATION and I AM PROUD TO BE A NEGRO. Everything seemed orderly enough, but City Manager Irving McNayr spotted some "possible troublemakers," ordered Columbia'...