Word: getaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrance on a Saturday night, and -- presto! -- in they walked. They ) immobilized the two night guards, ignored the museum's security system (which was not connected to the police precinct) and then spent two hours pulling paintings off the walls and out of their frames. Then exeunt: a clean getaway...
...seem like a walking argument for capital punishment. On July 5, 1978, just six months after he completed a 2 1/ 2-year prison term for beating a man to death, Harris and his brother Danny decided to rob a bank in San Diego. Looking first for a getaway car, they spotted two teenage boys parked at a fast-food restaurant. Harris forced the youths to drive to a nearby reservoir, where he shot and killed them. Later, he calmly ate their unfinished hamburgers. Danny testified against his brother and served three years in federal prison...
Essentially, Padre is a destination for the younger generation. Witness the dismay of families who come there looking for a peaceful getaway...
...phases of Operation Just Cause went off as planned. Shortly before midnight Tuesday, guests at Panama City's ritzy Marriott Caesar Park Hotel were awakened by sporadic shooting. A team of Navy SEALs (sea, air and & land capability) rushed the nearby private Paitilla Airport, where Noriega kept a potential getaway Learjet. In a brief but vicious firefight the SEALs overwhelmed guards, secured the landing strip and destroyed the aircraft. But four SEALs were killed, perhaps the earliest casualties of the conflict. Other SEALS died while disabling boats Noriega could have used to make an escape...
...test results, praising the car's "respect for the people who must live with it." A Trabi graced the centerfold of Autobild's "Best Autos of 1989" edition. The Frankfurter Allgemeine-Zeitung even compared the Trabant with the Porsche Carrera. Both, said the paper kindly, are "useful as getaway cars," but the Trabi has twice the Carrera's trunk space...