Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutting the Rate. In 15 months, judo-trained St. Louis cops, disguised as derelicts, lurching drunkenly through the streets of the city-sometimes accompanied by policewomen in frumpy wigs and bedraggled dresses-have made nearly 300 arrests by luring hoodlums to attack.
The cops also use dogs to help them track down criminals; one German shepherd, specially trained to sniff out narcotics, recently led officers to a cache of marijuana hidden in a meat freezer beneath ten pounds of frankfurters. The techniques are unusual-and so are the results: last year the...
Wall, which he used as a shelter. The frustrated Grepos next tried to dislodge Bielig and his helpers by throwing tear-gas grenades onto the western side. Two minutes later, six West Berlin cops sprinted to Bielig's side and rained potent tear-gas bombs of their own on...
Mandela became a disguise artist: dressed as a garage worker, he once wheeled a spare tire down the main street of Johannesburg under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in...
Last week, on the Durban-Johannesburg highway, Nelson Mandela's car was stopped by a police roadblock. Acting on an informer's tip, the cops had finally got their man.