Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter alone will not halt the Germans, nor rob them of their summer gains. (After one bitter winter in Russia the German armies came back to strike at Stalingrad and the Caucasus.) The snows which soon will block the high Caucasian passes will not block the low roads along the Black and Caspian Seas to Batum, Baku and the Middle East. Only the Red Armies in the Caucasus-so far unable to block the approaches, and soon likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges...
...take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They has plenty of money. . . . The penitentiary all over the United States are fulp of people ho was pore tried to work and have something, couldnt so that maid them steel an rob...
...head of the steelworkers (and the C.I.O.) sits Philip Murray, who is usually a sensible man. Murray knows that skyrocketing prices rob labor of real wages, that in World War I inflation ate away all but 18% of the purchasing power of the 160% wage increase won by wily old Samuel Gompers. But he also knows that John L. Lewis is crouching vengefully behind him, ready to spring. Isolationist Lewis made a symbol of $1 a day when he won it for his miners last year, and if pro-war Phil Murray fails...
Explanation. In Brooklyn, two holdup men tried to rob deaf Abraham Markowitz of $200. He shouted. They shouted. People began to gather. The bandits fled without the money...
...jury was out five and a half hours. They decided to take the State's story, that Madeline had invited her friend Mrs. Susie Reich over to her hotel so that Eli and Cullen could pounce on her and rob her. When they filed in again, they found all three guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy for Madeline. Eli's girl forgot again about being a lady. She pounded the table and screamed: "Please . . . please, I didn't!" Eli wept: "You have crucified...