Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.S. security agents went to Venezuela by the score. The U.S. cruiser Northampton was ordered to stand by off Caracas, ostensibly as a communications ship but actually loaded with a detachment of U.S. marines. On his part, Betancourt ordered a roundup of known agitators; some 2,000 were collared and...
Basing its decision on such narrow grounds, the court gave no hint as to what its reaction might be to the appeals now pending before it from other sit-in demonstrators who have been convicted on other charges throughout the South. And last week Baton Rouge cops arrested 72 more...
"Biography of a Bookie Joint"-a CBS-TV documentary uncovering local cops on the take-cast a dark cloud over the annual Boston Police Ball until Richard Cardinal Gushing, 66, dropped around with an evening-saving message. "In my theology," proclaimed Boston's homegrown Roman Catholic archbishop, "gambling in...
According to agents of the K.G.B. (Committee for State Security, or secret police), the textile operation had flourished since 1955, when Comrades Gazenfranz and Appelbaum arrived in Frunze, capital of Soviet Central Asia's Kirghiz Republic, with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill...
West Side Story. This big, slick cinemusical, like the Broadway show that it is based on, decorates its hoods with halos and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet.