Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Whatsa matter, lady--you get all you clothes from Eastern Mountain Sports? Ain't you seen kids 'round here wearin' these hats? We're the Death Angels, me an' a bunch of guys. We got the cops 'round here so scared--"
"Viet Nam veterans," says Stan Horton, a former Marine pilot, "used to be like cops-no one was comfortable around us. People are now more willing to listen." Horton is director of the Houston chapter of the Viet Nam Veterans Leadership Program (V.V.L.P.), which was founded with a modest Government...
He supports regulations banning condominium conversion and halting all tenant evictions. Roosevelt is also calling for a "return to cops on the beat," to reduce crime.
In today's economy, $98,908 is not a princely sum for supervising more than 6,000 police officers. New York and Chicago are clever to get away with paying their chief cops so little.
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have...