Word: pickpocket
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Citation: ". . . Head of the greatest mercantile establishment of its kind extant, a New York landmark that is the pride and also the benevolent pickpocket of the City at large, whose Red Star is the lodestar for thrifty shoppers the world over...
...determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...
...British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
...losses came from what the grand jury termed a gigantic check-kiting operation; as outlined, it called for the nerve of a pickpocket and the timing of a trapeze artist. One of the oldest and trickiest to work of all bank schemes, check kiting consists of covering one bad check with another bad check. The operator draws funds from Bank A on a phony check written on Bank B; then another phony check is written for deposit in Bank B to cover the original check. In the interval before the checks clear, the check kiter gets a fat bankroll...
...Infinitum. In Tokyo, police spotted Mitsushi Tanimoto in a store picking a woman's pocket, made the arrest and then nabbed the woman, who was so busy shoplifting sweaters that she had not noticed the pickpocket...