Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quad residents know the Harvard Police better than other students: Even those who don't live on top of the cops at 29 Garden St. know the Harvard men-in-blue intimately from all those late-night calls for escort rides from the dreaded River back to the safety of...
The men at the bar are in their late 30s, 40s, 50s. Carpenters. Plumbers. Garbage men. Cops. Most of them are exathletes of some distant, local repute who, like most adult American males, must now take their sports vicariously. They arrive at the bar early every Sunday morning. Over coffee...
Dartmouth patrolmen could learn quite a lot by watching their Cambridge counterparts in action. Just like their hero Dirty Harry, Dartmouth cops simply don't know what public relations is.
So we waited patiently, playing mumblety-peg and drinking ourselves silly by the mailbox. This was one bash we were not prepared to miss. But the hours went by, day turned into night, cops told us to move on, and still no invites. Stories started turning up in the media...
John Gotti is haunted by the deception of Wilfred ("Willie Boy") Johnson, a Gambino-family associate. Caught carrying $50,000 in a paper bag in 1981, Johnson invited New York City detectives to help themselves to the cash. They charged him with bribery. After that Johnson, who hung out at...