Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The first skirmishes in the battle of Seabrook came early Saturday morning. The night before, while most sat by campfires, protest organizers erected a narrow bridge across a pond near their campsite, a bridge essential for the next day's march toward the fence. Police arrive at 8 a.m. sharp...
The doors burst open, and Hitler's steel face blew apart in alarm. Two cops forced him against the wall, frisked him. The state attorney seized his copy of Hustler as evidence, impounded his books. They wouldn't let anyone else inside. The DA offered me immunity if I cooperated...
Mostly, he did, though the Motion Picture Academy, which likes to give its awards to people who trumpet the loftiness of their themes, contented itself with nominating Hitchcock five times as best director. The only Oscar he got was a career-end special. Even after his death last week at...
The Oscars are more glamorous, but in Hollywood there is another spring competition that is just as closely watched: the contest that determines which of the TV pilots will be chosen by the networks for their fall schedules. Right now executives on both coasts are looking at exactly 100 candidates...
From the beginning, the 40-year-old Bok had been, in the words of a senior Faculty member, the "most unassailable" choice. Virtually unknown in the College, in his two and-a-half years as dean of the Law School, Bok had acquired a reputation as peacemaker and diplomat. While...