Word: hold-up
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...Four hold-up men who last January robbed $50,000 from the Harvard Coop were sentenced last night to 20 to 25 years apiece at hard labor. The men were found guilty in Middlesex Court of armed robbery by a jury which wrangled for five hours and 46 minutes before reaching a verdict...
...must not "pour money down a rat hole." There is never any use in pledging financial outlays abroad until we are satisfied that it is not a mere hold-up game or a last minute rescue party, and until we are sure that fundamental steps have actually been taken which will change the situation permanently for the better. No nation-and certainly not the United States-is rich enough to be strong everywhere at once. No nation is rich enough ever to splurge money recklessly. There is a limit; we must pick the place where we can properly influence...
...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...
Chicherin destroyed his health trying to be a one-man Foreign Office. He retired in 1928, was Commissar in name only until 1930, died in 1936, was succeeded by his Vice-Commissar, a former newspaperman, corset salesman and revolutionary hold-up man who had begun his diplomatic career as the first Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain...
Prominent in the affairs of many a western U.S. State during the late 19th Century and early 20th were former bad men who had renounced their evil ways and reformed. To many a Westerner, the swashbuckling hold-up man who confined his depredations mainly to big banks and railroads was at least half hero. South of the Rio Grande the distinction between bandits and "liberators" has run even thinner. Last week, noted Mexican Bandit Enrique Rodríguez, nicknamed El Tallarin ("The Noodle"), surrendered to Governor Elpidio Perdomama of Morelos. Taken before military authorities at Mexico City, "The Noodle" explained...