Word: crowbarred
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Actually Using a Crowbar, Potter extends his spirit of unfair play to the game of life in general...
British police soon guessed that the theft was the work of Scottish nationalists. At the scene, they found a short crowbar and a wrist watch. Freshly carved on the coronation chair were the initials J.F.S., meaning possibly Justice for Scotland. Archdeacon S. J. Marriott thought that the theft was an elaborately planned job. Said he: "Early that morning I heard a crowd of drunks singing loudly outside. They might have been covering up for the noises inside." A policeman reported having questioned a man and a woman in a small, English-built Ford parked by the Abbey that night...
Retriever. In Memphis, Jessie Ashby, charged with attempting to break into a warehouse, told detectives they had him all wrong: crowbar in hand, he had climbed the iron fence guarding the property only to get a 50? piece he had inadvertently nipped into the grounds...
...Ohio, when a jury finds a man guilty of a capital crime, the death penalty is mandatory unless the jury recommends mercy. The first jury that heard Cecil Yankey's trial for the crowbar murder of 71-year-old Leroy Woodland in 1947 couldn't reach a verdict. Yankey agreed to plead guilty, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a one-judge court...
...American League pitcher has had to get acquainted, early in his big-league career, with a droopy, lackadaisical figure who plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and who comes up to the plate, sometimes limping, as if he had been called on to move a locomotive with a crowbar. The name of this apparition is Lucius Benjamin ("Luke") Appling. Droopy Luke spits a casual stream of tobacco juice, chats in a friendly Southern drawl with the umpire and opposing catcher, and usually complains that he is feeling just terrible. His symptoms may range from an upset stomach to "double...