Word: heist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a nearby bank had been robbed. Deciding that it was unsafe to walk around with so much cash, Sabine walked over to a second downtown bank, People's Heritage. There, he began filling out forms to open a checking account. An alert teller, who had heard about the heist two blocks away, took one look at Sabine and, despite his new coat, called the police. Said a bank official, he "was not our usual kind of customer." Just 59 minutes after he walked out of Maine National, Sabine was arrested for bank robbery...
Simultaneously, but independently, they invent the notion of stealing the turtles and setting them free in the ocean. It requires only the intercession of a third party, the creatures' keeper, to bring them together. Thereafter, Turtle Diary casts its spell mainly through its refusals. The heist proceeds without hitch or Hitchcockian suspense. There is not a single sentimental or anthropomorphic word, nor does anyone utter a sound about endangered species or ecological morality. William and Neaera do not fall in love as a result of their shared adventure. Each remobilizes sexually in surprising ways...
Harvard students were attacked on University property in two separate incidents last weekend, and a potpourri of other crimes--including a jewel heist and a man stealing $50 from a dorm room while two students were home--have been reported to Harvard Police since last Friday, November...
...Jewel Heist...
...headquarters on June 5, 1974, including about 3000 of the hand-written memos through which Hughes conducted all of his business. After the L.A. Police Department, the FBI and the CIA gave up their investigation of the crime, Drosnin, by winning the friendship of the burglar who led the heist, finally got his hands on the billionaire's dirty laundry. And for seven years, Drosnin lived underground as "Michael Howard," poring over the revealing documents, interviewing dozens of sources, and assembling the chronicle of, as he puts it. "How Howard Hughes tried to buy America...