Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resulting deadlock, the U.S. had to dip into its strategic stockpile, ration tin to industry. Columnist David Lawrence charged Bolivia, in collusion with British-Southeast Asia interests, with "the biggest holdup in the whole field of raw materials," and asserted that its tin owners, "now getting a 100% return on their invested capital, expect even more if the new phases of the blackmail should be successful...
MARCH-The Informer. In Pittsburgh, after 40 holdup victims were unable to identify any suspect in a police lineup, one of the suspects obliged by identifying three of the persons he had held...
...Informer. In Pittsburgh, after 40 holdup victims were unable to identify any suspect in a police lineup, one of the suspects obliged by identifying three of the persons he had held...
Once "hooked," the youngsters behave frighteningly like older addicts. To get money for heroin, they steal at home, sell the drug on commission in school hallways and lavatories. Some boys become thieves and holdup artists; many a teen-age girl has turned to prostitution...
...four-car collision, a gas leak at Radcliffe, and a hot-dog holdup punctuated the weekend in Cambridge...