Word: holdup
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...week's end police could offer no hint to the killer's identity or his motive. But they reminded New Yorkers again that the Ramble, a sunny sanctuary for birds and bird watchers like Charles Gallagher during the day, had long been a junglelike hideout for muggers, holdup men and perverts after dark...
Before he died, Lenin carefully considered the man who was to succeed him. Joseph Stalin had risen to the post of first party secretary from his beginnings as a terrorist and holdup man for party funds. In his political testament, Lenin warned in vain against making Stalin his successor, because he considered him too rude and too ambitious...
...York purchasers of the tear-gas Pengun [Oct. 11] may weep more than would-be holdup men. Your article is ambiguous as to purchases in New York City, described in TIME as a place where "it is not illegal...
Knopf, who is responsible for administration of the lot, reported that he has been concerned since last spring, when two student autos were stolen and one of them used in a local holdup. There had also been repeated slashings of convertible tops at that time...
...condition of Patrolman Edward C. Callahan, 36, father of two, was listed as critical even before the famed neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital had fully assessed the damage to his brain. Callahan had been shot in the head while trying to stop a holdup at a suburban Boston supermarket, and his fight for life mounted into agonizing suspense-not only for his family and for the surgeons who were caring for him but for another family and for other surgeons in another hospital on the other side of town...