Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Square in the thirties compared with its present incarnation resembled a country crossroad. The streetcars still clanged along Massachusetts Avenue, and the newsboys under the shelter of the kiosk leading into the subway sang out the list of newspapers, the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, the Evening American, the...
In 1974 her cousin Nicholas Ferraro, then Queens district attorney, gave her a job as an assistant prosecutor. She ran the special victims bureau, handling cases of child abuse and domestic violence so brutal and disturbing that she was unable to sleep at night. While on duty, however, Ferraro was...
Tony said what Sandy did to him was illegal, and so he stayed put Meanwhile. Tony called the cops to guard City Hall to make sure Sandy didn't dump any incriminating documents in the building. The city's outgoing personnel director had, of course, already been caught earlier in...
"Some years ago some students painted it red and our cops caught them red-handed," said Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse. "I've been waiting a long time to use that," he added.
In a twist to the usual scenario of politicians children being docked for speeding. Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh came under fire last month for using state troopers to whisk his sons--one of whom is a K-School student--from Harrisburg to Cambridge. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Thornburgh used...