Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawyer Mandela, 44, was sought by the white cops for helping to organize the mass work stoppage by Africans in May 1961 to protest apartheid and the proclamation of South Africa as a republic.
So thick were the crowds that surged to greet Ben Bella's plane when it touched down at Maison Blanche Airport that an Algerian army officer in a paratroop uniform fired a tommy gun in the air to clear a path for him. With sirens screaming, 30 motorcycle cops...
Two-Car Garage. On the second night of the festival, a crowd of 5,000 young Finns−some shouting anti-Communist slogans, some just adolescents shouting anything that came to mind−refused to disperse from the area near the Old Student House in the downtown section of the...
Combined with the tight police control is an incredibly complex government bureaucracy that requires official permission to buy everything from drugs to hotel meals. Pedestrians, at least, have it easy in Tirana. There are only 400 cars in the country (ancient Russian and Czech models, except for a fleet of...
Typical was David, 18, a reform school graduate described as "unreachable" and "psychopathic" He began by aimlessly complaining about everything from prison conditions to cops and fate. Then he got mad, called his interviewer's necktie the "crummiest" he had ever seen, peered out the window and snapped, "See...