Word: pickpockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most hunters of skill and experience, tiny, deft-fingered Police Inspector Shimpachi Utsugi recalls his triumphs with nostalgic respect for his quarry. "In the old days," says Utsugi of the time when he first joined the imperial police force, "Japan's pickpockets were proud professional men who would never stoop to employ such tactics as cutting garments with a knife." They plied their trade with stealth, skill and subtlety, and to combat them, the young detective matched skill with skill and stealth with stealth. He soon became as good a pickpocket as the pickpockets. On busy days, like...
...book called Lincoln Fires a General (correct title: Lincoln Finds a General). President Folk's diary was interesting, too, and so was Washington's. Why, during the Civil War, said Student Truman, a Senate committee got hold of General Meade and used him like a pickpocket. The reporters leaped at the bait. Did that mean "General MacArthur was likely to be used as a pickpocket?" He was making no inferences, said Harry Truman, just pointing out that history had a way of repeating itself...
...evasive. M.I.T.'s Dirk Struik? "Struik, they asked him if he was a Commie and he said, 'Of course not, but I'm a good Markist' (sic). And you all know what Karl Marx was. That's like saying, 'I'm not a thief but I'm a good pickpocket...
Another outstanding National League rookie is Centerfielder Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves (TIME, March 20), who steals bases with the ease of a practiced pickpocket. Ordinarily no slugger, switch-hitter Jethroe has several times managed to knock the ball out of the park when a home run was what the Braves needed most, and his early-season average as a .300 hitter brought him a salary raise. At midseason, the fleet 28-year-old Negro is the almost unchallenged base-stealer of the major leagues: 24 bases, 15 more than his nearest competitor...
...Bite. In Eastbourne, England, police warned the public against a pickpocket who squirts toothpaste on his victims' clothing, then niches their wallets while helping them wipe...