Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their quarry was no blue-chinned hood in a bulletproof vest, but a woman of 29 with dyed black hair and five telltale moles on her face. She was Mrs. Margaret O'Connor, and she was wanted in connection with 100 armed robberies...
...when she was 17, Maggie married Benny Tomasello, whose greatest virtue (in Maggie's eyes) was his modest record as a petty criminal. In 1944, after she had a baby girl, Maggie divorced Benny. Four years later she married Bobby O'Connor. While hanging out the wash, she used to boast to neighbors about what a good provider Bobby was. Bobby hardly ever had to work more than a couple of nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby...
...usefulness: the drop in epidemic severity was much more marked in the 7,000,000 inoculated in the 5-to-9 age groups than among non-inoculated-25% to 50% fewer cases. On the strength of these figures-and with prospects for improved, safer vaccine-Crusader Basil O'Connor of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis predicted that the U.S. will wipe out the paralytic form of the disease in seven to ten years...
...Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor also acted as censor when his department banned the French film Game of Love (TIME, Jan. 24). O'Connor testified that the movie must be immoral and obscene because it "aroused sexual feelings in me." Said he: "Feelings should come naturally. There are no stimulants necessary for nature. Nature takes care of itself...
Preferred Environment. In Toledo, Orion Ward, 27, got concurrent one-to-15-year terms in the State Penitentiary for burglary and larceny after he interrupted Judge Thomas J. O'Connor, who was about to sentence him to the Mansfield Reformatory, pleaded: "If you don't mind, Your Honor, I'd rather go to the pen; those young crooks at the reformatory might have a bad influence...