Word: highwaymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highwaymen, whose offense made them liable to gibbeting, were the heroes of low life throughout the period. Swift immortalized one such "knight of the pad" in his ballad, Clever Tom Clinch Going to Be Hanged...
...Near Mojave, Calif., highwaymen successfully held up the same mail stage at the same spot for the second time in a month...
...Winston Churchill to grousing about the black market, whose thousands of outlawed operators have made huge fortunes by trading scarce and rationed goods. Said the liberal London Star: "There has never been anything quite like it in this country-certainly not since the 18th-Century organization of thieves and highwaymen...