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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trademark. In San Francisco, Process Server Guy E. Yancey, 19, quit his job after delivering his first summons because the recipient mistook him for a burglar, threw him to the floor, tied him up with twine, kept him bound until cops arrived.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

While he waited for his bus one chilly Saturday night, Sam Thompson, a bibulous Negro handyman, ducked into Louisville's Liberty End Cafe for a beer and a little fellowship. Under the influence of both and the rhythm of a blaring jukebox, Sam began shuffling a dance step. Two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Shufflin' Sam's Long Step | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

For the first time, he found himself in a Western nation with a powerful Communist Party. But never before had France taken such precautions for an official visitor. More than half the effectives of the Paris Prefecture, including 3,000 plainclothesmen, were assigned to protect him. Along his route, 2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Love Paris | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

Tension ran high in many areas, and in the normally peaceful town of Masan voting was still in progress when a disgruntled crowd raised the cry, "Dirty polls!" It was like a spark in dry straw. Suddenly, 200 angry citizens raced to a police station, set it afire, fled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Victorious Methods | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Hard Cover. In Los Angeles, after James E. Fitzgerald, 23, was arrested on charges of kidnaping and robbing a policeman, looting a cafe, shaking down a pedestrian, shooting another and holding up a liquor store twice, he told cops that he was a Bible salesman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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