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Word: filches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking Victims. The recitation also provided parenthetical glimpses into the existence of Manson and his tribe. They often ate what they could filch from restaurant garbage cans. They stood guard duty against the attack by blacks that Manson had prophesied. Manson directed an orgy where "everybody made love to everybody else. We all shed our clothes and we were lying on the floor, and it was like it didn't make any difference who was next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Of Murders and Messiahs | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...lacks an efficient logistics system, as Czechoslovakia proved when Moscow had to press civilian trucks into service and when Soviet soldiers ran out of rations and water after a few days. Russian soldiers are trained, however, to live off the land; some did so in Prague by trying to filch apples from the garden at the American embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow's Military Machine: The Best of Everything | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

...Duke d'Escargot (played with prinking precision by Victor Spinetti) persuades the Corsican Brothers to help him overthrow Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith). As the Corsicans approach Paris in disguise, their boat is attacked by the revolutionaries. In the fray the peasant brothers filch their counterparts' violin case containing their noble credentials. After that, le deluge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Too Much Fun To Lose Your Head | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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