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Word: brigand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1960 | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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