Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming at a time when several prowlers and mysterious holdup men were reported in the Radcliffe area, the Epps incident caused Dean Sherman's office to advise Annex dwellers to walk in pairs after sundown...
...Monday, November 22, two college undergraduates and the daughter of the president of Colby College were stopped and robbed of all their cash by armed bandits, who overtook them near the Harvard Observatory. Last Sunday, another Harvard student drove through a car holdup in Lancaster st., which was apparently not reported to the Cambridge police...
Harvard Observatory has seen the third robbery in its vicinity within a fortnight. On Sunday night Albion Sawyer '52 ran into a holdup there that has not yet been reported to the Cambridge police...
Extenuation. In Detroit, Victim John Zissi asked the judge to be lenient with the two holdup men charged with robbing him, because they had been "very polite...
Spectators at the Coop holdup disagreed as to whether a gun was employed. One employee reported, "I didn't see them use a gun;" but two students who pursued the bandits said they had been threatened with...