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Word: burglars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Feelings. In Flint, Mich., burglar left a note in the Genesee County Savings Bank: "Thanks very much, didn't get a damn thing, but thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...course of the jamboree, 41 people were bitten by animals or human beings. A howling burglar was caught after he had run from the scene of his crime smack into a beehive. One policeman shot his wife in the leg and was himself knifed by another man. Another cop had his skull bashed by a man he had just saved from drowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spree | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

With scarcely a harsh word spoken and no show of disorder beyond a cut telephone wire, the fat burglar and the thin managed to filch 600,000 francs in bills from Engineer Henri Berger's office safe and persuade Henri to order another 6,000,000 sent over from the safe in his apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Polite Pair | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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