Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At social gatherings with his wife's suburban friends, he found himself in a beleaguered minority. He had grown up with guns; still owned two or three, now never actually used. But he moved in circles where guests tended to edge away at cocktail parties whenever he admitted that...
Jack and Jill trailed downstairs with him and waited while a couple of genial Cambridge cops scrutinized their bursar's cards and warned them never to get locked in again ("You take one of these guards by surprise in the night, he'll probably hit you with the first thing...
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE fire on children and completely unarmed men without provocation? Why don't we hear about Black cops accidentally shooting children who "make a quick movement" or reach into their pockets "suspiciously"? A passage from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man may be apropos:
Part of the national effort has included hiring and promoting more Blacks in police departments. In New York, New Orleans and other cities, hiring practices have been found discriminatory in court cases. Black cops who help police Black communities, it turns out, tend not to have the kind of delusions...
Brazil stumbled into its plight through the type of doomsday scenario that now haunts the world financial community. The crunch began in September, when small-and medium-size banks in the U.S. and elsewhere refused to increase their Latin American loans in the wake of Mexico's brush with...