Word: burglarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attic Burglar. His critics accused him of still clinging to the language of nonalignment. Later, in a radio speech in which he announced the fall of Bomdi...
Assistant Secretary of State Phillips Talbot graphically defined the U.S. mission. "We are not seeking a new ally," he said. "We are helping a friend whose attic has been entered by a burglar." In Washington's opinion, it mattered little that the burglar gratuitously offered to move back from the stairs leading to the lower floors and promised not to shoot any more of the house's inhabitants. "What we want," said Talbot, "is to help get the burglar...
Family legends are well told; Daniel's aunt, almost blind, terrorizes the home-folks by veering around town in her Studebaker, and lectures severely all cops who stop her; one of Lucy's Quaker forebears was renowned for advising a burglar, "Friend, I am going to shoot right where thee is standing." The author's charged, highly colored prose is almost always impressive, but occasionally it slops over into italics and suggests Robert Penn Warren at less than his best...
Until this time the Museum has not been equipped with burglar alarms because every exhibit is locked at night and movement between rooms is difficult. Also, a watchman is supposed to make a tour of the building every two hours...
...inmate at Her Majesty's Borstal prison at Ruxton Towers. The place is a stately old home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy of the Establishment. He is a convicted burglar who feels no guilt, only odium. The one thing he can do well is run. The warden (Michael Redgrave) trains him as the long-distance runner who will triumph for the Borstal prison in the first sports day ever arranged between the boy convicts and the amiable young gentry from...