Word: muggers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropped a dollar," the middle-aged householder found himself saying. He felt the folly of the words as they left his mouth. A student had lately been killed by a young mugger for saying exactly the same thing, but in that case, apparently, the suggestion came out as a kind of derisive irony. His own words, he knew with shame, had held no irony. They were, in fact, a reflex, an example of sheer, dumb middle-class helpfulness. He found himself actually blushing at the thought of having spoken them...
When Princess Grace of Monaco died last summer in an auto crash, her brother John B. Kelly Jr., 55, led the members of their prominent Philadelphia family at the funeral. Last week Kelly was shot by a mugger near a gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The onetime Olympic oarsman, in town to give a rowing demonstration, was making a call from a phone booth when he was approached by a man with a small-caliber revolver who demanded money. Kelly tried to push him away, and the man shot him in the thigh. Kelly's doctors...
Yane is now planning a pair of diamond-solitaire jeans that will cost as much as $3,500. But wearers of the gilded britches might want to be discreet, or they could find themselves confronted by a mugger who growls, "Keep the wallet, pal. Just hand over the pants...
...didn't hesitate to point his weapon at me repeatedly to remind me he meant business. (It wasn't necessary.) For the guy who robbed me--a slim Black man about 25 years old, smoothly dressed and very much acting the role of the confident mugger--the incident will probably fade from memory quickly. New York's finest and their armed-robbery expertise notwithstanding, there's not a chance in hell he'll be caught...
...reason to believe the get-tough strategies towards crime being pushed by the New and Old Right would rechannel that self-interest more effectively. Maybe my mugger was poor. Maybe he was recently unemployed. Or--who knows?--maybe he'd recently been deprived of food stamps or other aid by the President's austere social budget...