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Word: picklocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared to the employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dirty Work & Savage Fun | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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