Word: getaways
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...Indiana State Prison, admitted that they did it frequently, had used their time off to hold up a store for $4,145 and buy a Buick coupe, which they kept in the prison parking lot when it was not being used either for joyrides or for getaway purposes in other holdups...
...Nationalist officials made an eleventh-hour getaway from Kiangwan airfield. One of them was Mayor Chen Liang, who had just announced the beginning of "Health Week" in Shanghai. Quipped the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury the next day, before the Communists took it over: "The mayor certainly was sincere about it. He found out what seemed best for his health and promptly did it." By dusk, the western and southern outskirts of the city were bare of troops...
They apparently entered the building merely by forcing open the door, which had a weak lock. The car used for the getaway was a black Buick sedan, but police were investigating the possibility that the same men were responsible for the theft of a red convertible from the Union Square garage
...George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
...Fare. In Hoboken, N.J., Dorothy Cantor and David Drysdale succeeded in stealing a watch, failed in their quick getaway by hailing a police car they mistook for a taxi...