Word: bandit
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American customs officials last month boarded an Aeroflot airliner at Dulles International Airport in Washington and seized three crates of suspicious cargo. The Soviets immediately accused the U.S. of a "bandit operation" and a "criminal, barbarous act," but the customs officials replied that they were merely carrying out U.S. Government rules banning the sale of high-technology equipment to the Soviet Union and other Communist nations...
...when bandit Ron commandeers youth and arms for death in Salvador, filthy old men are silent. They love lechery but not their sons! Henry Ratliff...
...Wells Fargo bandit beat the system...
...other Communist show trials, such as those in Stalin's Russia, when charges were trumped up and "enemies of the people" taken out and shot. An old Chinese adage has been revived, and revised, by the Gang of Four trial: the winner becomes king, the loser a bandit. In China these days the loser becomes a counterrevolutionary. At least this time the losers are a group that most people are glad to see well out of power...
Reagan knows the history of his ranch, and as he drew closer to the house he pointed to a distant hill and told how a hundred years ago, a young bandit had been ambushed there. He told of a hanging tree and stagecoach holdups. On the wide hillside across the valley, where the dogs are buried, the Spaniards had cultivated vineyards, long since gone. One day Reagan brushed against the native buckthorn bush, and its berries rubbed off on him. Later, when he washed at home, the juice made a lather and he figured out that the Spaniards had used...