Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antlers, Okla., Aubrey Booker, 25, playful mountaineer, left the family shack to "have fun" with county law officers. He 1) stole a car, 2) abandoned it, 3) stole another, 4) picked up a 15-year-old village lass and kept her with him three days, 5) robbed a filling station, 6) eluded posses in half a dozen counties, 7) robbed a second filling station, 8) tried to rob a third, walked into policemen's arms, walked out again, leaped on a horse, tore hell-roaring for home, tired by his six-day spree. Pa Booker yanked him from...
Yesterday, the representatives of the Harvard faculty challenged the existence of organized educational vice. The challenge was framed in the staid and conservative expressions of those who rightly value their great responsibilities. This does not rob it of its significance. The very fact of the action, and the implications which lie so obviously within the guarded words of the Council's statement, mark it as a milestone...
...Manhattan, Nurse Marian Cribbs was awakened by someone tweaking her big toe. Tweaker was a man who said he had come to rob her. Instead he kissed her foot, tried to kiss her. Resourceful Nurse Cribbs reminded him it was Lent, shooed him out, promised to meet him later. At the rendezvous he met police...
...Americans love our land as much as Herr Schöttle [TIME, March 20] loves his but we do not have to commit harakiri or rob, degrade and enslave one part of a people in order that the other part may exist...
...yard free-style--Won by Sheffield Halsey (P); second, Rob Relcher (Y); third Gordon Mustin (Y). Time...