Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge ruled that it was impossible, in a gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
Smoking in the rooms, or keeping alcoholic beverages any place in the dormitories is definitely out. Dorm residents take the rap for any offense that their overnight guests might commit. Making loud or unnatural noises during quiet hours and neglecting to wait on table or take bell duty about winds up the most common offenses leading...
After that Parisi was transferred from a jail in Brooklyn to jail in The Bronx, waiting to be tried for killing Irving Penn. But it looked very much as though he might beat the rap again. One thing was certain: Jack would not talk. The law, by cleaning up the old charges, seemed only to be helping Parisi get back into circulation-and in his business, there were always job openings for close-mouthed...
Faye is prepared to talk about anything on TV "as long as it's not too heavy," and she has imposed only a slight self-censorship: "The things I don't touch are people's personal lives. And I never rap people or anything, because I don't think I'm in a position...
...breaking young lovers of They Live by Night, to the hazards of crime. This time Granger, a part-time letter carrier, tries to steal $200 in a weak moment. The haul turns out to be an embarrassing $30,000 in blackmail money, and somebody else's murder rap. While wife Cathy sticks loyally by, Granger steers an increasingly dangerous course between police and murderer...