Word: pea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
...bought only three things: an open season on armored trucks, a few Hallowe'en mask robberies, and a noticeable decline of crime in Massachusetts. Robberies in the Boston area took a noticeable downward trend after January 17 last, when seen men "of medium height and weight," clad in navy pea jackets and wearing grotesque Hallowe'en masks, carried out the largest cash robbery in American history. The records of what the local newspapers like to call "Boston's crack Criminal Investigation Department" show very few major larcenies in Massachusetts in the last eleven months...
...only previous time that beach territory had interested detectives was a few days after the crime when Federal money bags were found in Peabody and Sangus. Police were probably thinking of the pea-jackets, or of the sailor knots used to tie two Brink's cashiers and three guards. They may have been thinking back 15 years to the second largest cash theft in history, when ten thugs with machine guns robbed an arptored car of $427,000 in Brooklya and escaped across Jamsica Bay in a high powered speed-boat. The money in that case was never recovered...
...Pea-jacketed, masked bandits turned up from Newton to Omaha. Brink's uniforms and burglar tools were seized in a raid by detectives in Cleveland. A dollar bill that was supposedly part of the identifiable $98,000 was seen by somebody in Salt Lake City. Dust samples from a North End truck were rushed to F.B.I. laboratories. A Brink's gun was found in back of a store in Somerville...
Captain Bacon said that his ship had been making possibly 15 knots, which seemed a high speed for a pea-soup fog, but there was also some evidence that the freighter, though outward bound, had been moving along the inward-bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids...