Word: copse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reports Photographer Bailey: "One problem was that the mobs weren't exactly anxious to have their pictures taken showing them looting. They didn't want the cops to look at the press later and say, 'Oh, there's that guy.' I would say things like...
No Sheep. After a riot, complaints of "police brutality" are as inevitable as insurance claims. Often they are justified, for appallingly few U.S. cops are trained in riot control. In Newark, well-drilled state troopers took over in many places from the ineffective city police and National Guardsmen. During Cleveland...
In the cities, each wave of new immigration evoked violent reactions, many of which were instigated in the mid-1800s by the original Know-Nothings and their many later imitators. Immigrant groups themselves battled with one another, caught up in ethnic feuds. Above all, the American labor movement was the...
The neon sign that tops the 16-story New China Products Department Store in the crowded "Suzy Wong" district of Hong Kong was behaving very erratically last week. Sometimes it shone brightly in advertisement of its wares -and at just such times mobs of Communists surged through the streets in...
The maître d' at San Francisco's Trader Vic's restaurant was about to shut down for the night when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he...