Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To be sure, it was easy to find black resentment of the police. "They are just grabbing for straws," a 27-year-old unemployed mechanic said last week as he stood talking with a couple of friends on a downtown street corner. "When they come up to you, they almost...
American authorities were mildly astonished last week after getting a call from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties said they had nabbed Charles J. McVey II, 57, a businessman-fugitive on the U.S. Customs Service's ten-most-wanted list. The Canadian cops found him in Teslin, Yukon Territory...
To many brokers and investors, it is all getting rather scary. How long, they ask, can the market keep going up and up in a straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss...
Consequently, even those troubled by vague worries that the market cannot go straight up forever generally think that the rise can and will be prolonged for a while yet. Furniss says that before the cops break up the party, "I would not be surprised if we reached 2800 ((on the...
Despite the abundance of worthy series, one proof that writers are wise to resist them is that the two best current entries in any category are one-offs. Both are from British writers better noted for their series featuring pairs of mismatched policemen. Reginald Hill, whose stories of the cops...