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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"I was surprised that they seemed worried," said Thomas Keane '78, president of the Quincy House Film Society. "The cops seemed to think it was all a joke," he added.

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Bomb Scare Stops Quincy Stoogathon; Police Summoned | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

The Enforcer's plot is agonizingly similar to its predecessors. Big trouble is brewing in San Francisco and all of San Francisco's finest are unable to stop it. Enter Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), the cop whose record of solved cases is equalled only by the list of brutality complaints...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: How The Bad Guys Finally Won | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

In November 1965 Chicago police arrested Donald Lang, 20, for the murder of a prostitute who had been found in a ghetto alley brutally beaten and stabbed to death. The cops were certain they had their man: the hooker was last seen leaving a nearby tavern with Lang, a Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Unlocking a Prisoner of Silence | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Are we to understand that Harry is cleaning up his act? Perhaps. Or it may be that with some of the heat burned out of the law-and-order issue, Harry can be seen not as the instinctive fascist some once thought him but as an apolitical, job-oriented man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Harried Harry | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Voinovich's Kievstone cops approach seems anachronistic. But the jabs are rapid and effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kievstone Cops | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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