Word: heist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connery). But Duke is persuasive, the take promises to be in the millions, and what the hell, Pat misses the glorious game of cops and robbers. So he gives the green light and the dirty sport begins, with a Fifth Avenue luxury apartment house as the scene of the heist...
...lifetime of crime, Willie ("the Actor") Sutton robbed banks of almost $2,000,000 and went through more disguises than the Scarlet Pimpernel. During the course of one bank heist or another, Sutton, 69, who served 35 years in prison before being paroled last Christmas Eve, popped up in a variety of roles that included a policeman, a window washer, a bank guard and a Western Union messenger. Last week the Actor was at it again -this time with star billing in a television commercial for Connecticut's New Britain Bank & Trust...
Less than a year after its inception, strange stories began to filter out about the LNS itself: predictable ideological splits, internal dissension, and finally, a bizarre heist in which one faction stole all the organization's equipment from its office and moved it to a farm in Massachusetts. Then there were...
...Although charges have not been filed, the FBI linked several suspects in the Brighton robbery to a robbery in Beverly Hills, Calif., an aborted hold-up in New York and a planned heist in San Francisco. The new charges bring the number of actual robberies involving the suspects to four. Gilday, the alleged triggerman who fired the bullet killing Patrolman Schroeder, was not involved in any of the previous robberies, according...
...stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure in radical-student lawlessness...