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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLAD IN HEAVY, dark blue raincoats, the policemen shifted their feet nervously on the broken asphalt parking lot and peered into the dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

Feb. 2, 1979--The women's track teem cops the Greater Boston Championships crown.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, Nell Scovell, and Jeffrey R. Toobin ., S | Title: More Frustration Than Elation | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

The lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

When he was eleven, the tribe moved to an apartment just off Baltimore's Union Square, where that famous curmudgeon H.L. Mencken lived. The future "Observer" satirist was unaware of that, though today he suspects that Mencken was the elderly gentleman who one day called the cops to chase Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

PTST, which distributes 200,000 monthly study guides to such serious TV productions as Eleanor and Franklin, Masterpiece Theater and Between the Wars, set out two years ago to transmute even the most mindless network shows into learning aids. The first piece of alchemy was making cops-and-robbers shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Live with TV | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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