Word: holdup
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...rather like the early Marx Brothers movies, or the last films of W.C. Fields. It also had a fine eye for the human cartoon. Allen, playing the master criminal of his youthful fantasies, stands by while a bank teller tries to decipher his scrawl: "I have a gub." The holdup man insists that the word is "gun"; the teller consults higher authorities, thereby spiking the heist. Even Allen's penmanship, it turns out, is masochistic. Occasionally there was a flat, tasteless line, but audiences howled, and the film made money. Allen took...
...Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis. The $500,000 ransom seemed almost a relief-as did a quiet and temporarily successful $200,000 holdup of a United jet in Reno. Today the most frequently-and falsely-coupled words are "senseless" and "violence." But violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity occurs only to the victims and onlookers. Therein lies the deepest fear of modern times. War may be obscene...
Upon returning to Westminster from a visit to Dublin, British Labor Leader Harold Wilson warned Prime Minister Edward Heath that any further holdup in announcing his long-delayed settlement proposals for Northern Ireland would probably lead to open civil war. In fact, Heath has not been able to decide on any plans because his Cabinet has been divided. A few weeks ago, his Tory government was apparently ready to offer a series of reforms that would have given Ulster's Catholic minority a bill of rights and a share in the Protestant-dominated Stormont government. Then a step...
...neighboring states with and without the death penalty. Supporters of the death penalty argue that such studies include all murders, 80% of which result from disputes between persons who know each other, and that this 80% probably cannot be deterred by penalties of any kind. They insist, though, that holdup murders and similar crimes can be reduced by the fear of death, particularly if that death is imposed swiftly rather than after years of legal delays...
...jobs followed as a logger, well rigger, powder monkey and ranch hand. In between, he got deeper into crime. He was convicted in Nebraska on a robbery charge, and while serving that sentence, was brought to trial for a Minnesota gas-station holdup in which he was accused of shooting the attendant. "Coming in for 40 years." he told TIME Correspondent Joe Boyce recently, "I felt, well, if I was going to do anything with my life, I'd have to do it here. I always enjoyed reading, so I turned to writing...