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Word: oilcloth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the FBI men shadowing him, Long hitchhiked 51 miles to Portland, snaked through heavy traffic and thick crowds to a house in the southeastern part of town, and came out with an oilcloth-covered package cached there years before by a prison pal. Next morning, Long unwrapped his package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Slight Case of Murder | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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