Word: mugger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frame radiates energy. Her loud voice spews words at a rat-a-tat pace. Even the salt-and-pepper curls around her face seem to crackle with vitality. A few years ago in New York City, the pint-size journalist fearlessly ran down a 6-ft., 13-year-old mugger who had snatched a watch from her neck. The kid must not have been following her exercise regimen...
...much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
...lectern and said, "I know what people say. This mushy-headed liberal Cuomo, who read a book once. These macho guys who want to burn people, fry them." He drops his voice. "I know how you feel." He does. Cuomo's father-in-law was paralyzed by a mugger's attack. "Look, my mother wants revenge." Cuomo does not. He tells them that he is for life without parole. "I'd say, 'That's it, Charlie, you're going to be by yourself for 100 years.' " The policemen applaud...
...next week as one of the main defendants in a racketeering and conspiracy case against members of the Gambino crime family. While he can hardly consider that a welcome prospect, he may find it more seemly to stand trial as a would-be Godfather than as a common street mugger...
Paradise Postponed combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister. The novel's central mystery emerges after the death, in 1985, of Simeon Simcox, 80, Anglican rector of Rapstone Fanner, a village some two hours' driving time west of London. The clergyman's will contains a staggering surprise. He has left nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned...