Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, 'Who is it?' I said it's probably the night mechanic. He said, 'What'll happen if you don't let him in?' I said he'd probably think something was wrong." The robbers conferred, hurriedly grabbed a last batch of moneybags and glided away. In their haste they left at least $1,000,000 behind -but it had been a profitable 20 minutes anyhow. Their take was $1,000,000 in cash and $500,000 in checks, the largest cash haul in U.S. history...
Then Block joined the Army and put out a G.I. information sheet. In 1945, ex-Sergeant Block had lunch with Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer. Said Herblock: "I'll send you a batch of my cartoons so you can get a line on me." Replied Publisher Meyer: "And I'll send you some editorials so you can see how you like us." The liking was mutual...
Scarcely had the prison doors closed on the last German war criminal to be convicted by the Allies (TIME, Dec. 26) when they opened again for the first batch to be paroled. A few days before Christmas, 54 second-string war criminals were released from Landsberg, the gloomy fortress prison where 25 years ago Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf; their sentences did not expire until next year, but U.S. authorities cut them short for "good behavior...