Word: crowbarred
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Keepsake. In Weatherford, Tex., Bank President Fred Smith explained how two Arkansas bank robbers happened to have a crowbar inscribed "Citizens National Bank, Weatherford, Tex.": the crowbars were distributed as souvenirs three years ago "but we never thought they would be put to such...
...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
...Brooklyn pier one morning last fortnight, a detail of U.S. customs officers quietly moved in on a pile of 600 neat, wooden crates. Customs Inspector Jacob Ehrlich pried into one of the crates with a crowbar. Cried he: "Just as I thought!" His companions pressed closer, saw a gleaming white water closet. They seized the entire $10,500 shipment...
...like many another Berliner, 52-year-old Walter was hungry. So were his wife, his bedridden mother and his 4½-year-old son. When plump little Kasha came trotting by one day, Walter decided to bash her on the head with a crowbar. When Betty's German gardener found Kasha's body in the back of Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court...
Despite the testimony of scientists that the strength of Kenneth McKellar is insignificant compared to that of the atom bomb, the Senator from Tennessee has lately been experiencing delusions of grandeur, and is prepared to display his vocal brawn in an attempt to twist fissionable uranium into a political crowbar. Contesting the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission, McKellar is reviving an old political battle as significant to the problem of peacetime atomicenergy development as an Ozark blood-fend...