Word: copses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, Guayaquil high-school and university students went out on strike in solidarity with the Portoviejo victims, only to run into tough cops who thwacked them with sabers, then used guns. They fought the police for five bloody hours, until the army moved in, fired the police chief...
Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had...
Police kept dipping and diving last week in Denver, where 10,000 do-se-doers assembled for the eighth annual National Convention of Square Dancers. On two days the cops roped off Denver's 16th Street, and through most of the week the frisky conventioneers roped off all the...
Planning a big midnight vice raid last week on the dock area, Brooklyn's District Attorney Edward S. Silver called in the press for an advance briefing, with the understanding that the story would be held until the roundup began. But United Press International, which did not staff Silver...
Within minutes after the news was broadcast, the prostitutes, pimps, pickpockets and pot peddlers who were to be the raid's targets started clearing out of the area. When the police arrived at midnight, the dock country was as quiet as a park after a Sunday-school picnic. Rummaging...