Word: bandit
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...bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions of 'em. One gets out of his cage once in a while, and there are always several bandit rats (Independents) scampering around the floor and peeking out with one eye from behind the radiators and garbage cans. Nobody minds much, but once in a while the staff sneaks around with overturned wastebaskets and rounds them all up. Most of them prefer to be in cages anyway, where they...
...Louis successfully defended his title by knocking out vast (255¼ lb.) Abe Simon, who looks like a worried cigar-store Indian, in 0:16 of the sixth round last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Simon and his manager, James Joy Johnston, the aging Boy Bandit, screamed that the count was short; 18,220 fans screamed with delight. Joe turned his purse, estimated at $45,000, over to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Promoter Mike Jacobs rewarded him with a dozen eating apples...
...both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor's dead father, with warlice sheeting his face...
Belle was started on the primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...
...later years Belle ran a bandit headquarters at a place she called Younger's Bend, in Indian territory. Near there, in 1889, someone fired a load of buckshot into her back while she was riding. She was buried with her jewels and one of her precious pistols, which were afterward stolen by grave robbers...