Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Santa Ana Freeway, on which cars whoosh past such Southern California institutions as Disneyland and San Juan Capistrano on the way from Los Angeles to San Diego, was blotched by fog. As state cops later reconstructed it, a woman driver pulled part way off the freeway with a flat...
When prison officials called in a force of 200 machine gun-toting cops to reinforce the regular guards, the prisoners in their high, fourth-tier redoubt began to shoot their hostages, one by one, to "dramatize" their demand. Two of 'the bodies were hurled from a window to the...
Fighting Injustis. In conservative Portland, Reed was suspect from the day President Foster descended on it with his pacifism, social conscience and simplified spelling (dout, injustis). His students were soon questioning everything from the effect of vaudeville on children to anti-German hysteria in World War I. Reed is still...
Barreling down U.S. 17 toward Florida in a snappy grey Lincoln convertible Private Lucky Earl Beckwith, U.S.M.C. zoomed into the hamlet of Woodbine, Ga., was forthwith halted by the cops. A check revealed the real owner to be not so Lucky; he was New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Last year the relief rollers of Newburgh, N.Y., were briefly put on a bread-and-water basis by City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 40, who decreed a belt tightening on the use of welfare funds. Now it was Mitchell who might be getting a taste of tin-plate victuals. Mitchell...