Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Encouraged and trained by the local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill...
The Floating Lightbulb is the story of the Pollacks, a struggling family on the outskirts of everything in 1945 Brooklyn. Max is a small-time numbers runner and waiter supporting a mistress he can't afford, in debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid...
First to go was Maria Ferraguto, 50, who had won bonuses for hard work on her climb to the job of a personnel director in a Rome post office. She was charged with aggravated and continuous fraud against the state, a felony that carries a penalty of up to three...
Words can become so vague that they lose their pungency and become hail-mary sort of comforting sounds. To Americans, liberty, freedom and the like are such words, held close and uttered reverently by radicals and reactionaries, apologists and activists, crusaders and cops. So to say that 60s activists shared...
People now at Harvard are the "leaders of tomorrow": they will "decide the future." More cliches, and more than a grain of much in them, which is why the unwillingness to see what is wrong is so depressing when it happens here. There are plenty of people in this city...