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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Also, if the enemy has succeeded in grabbing a U.N. outpost during the night, it pays the U.N. to counterattack at dawn's early light, so as to give the burrowing Reds little or no time to dig in. And if the enemy can use night harassments to rob U.N. troops of sleep, the U.N. can return the favor by harassing the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Night & Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Shakedown. In Baltimore, a bandit attempted to rob Grocery Clerk Dorothy Jones, but his hand trembled so nervously that his gun came apart in his hand, its single bullet dropped to the floor, and he bolted out the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...yanking the hair from a dead fishwife to make a wig. "If she knew I had to do this in order to live, she probably wouldn't care." the hag explains. "Are you sure?" asks the servant mockingly. "Then it's right if I rob you. I'd starve if I didn't." And he strips off her clothes and kicks her roughly down among the decaying corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misanthrope from Japon | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...bandages in City Park. Such types appeared to be in very short supply in this troop." Giggling and jiggling among themselves, they scarcely listened to his inaugural address ("Look at Big Shot," whispered one). Nor did they take his attempts at umpiring any more seriously ("That's a rob! Ya blind?"). On at least one night, the troop seemed unanimous in its estimate of the scoutmaster ("He's strictly a stupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for the Boys | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Guyda will start Lindsey Fischer as goalie, Captain Bill Laimbeer and Frank Blohm at fullbacks, John Hadik, Stacy Holmes, and Denny Little at the half-backs, outsides Rob Lorry and Godfrey Truslow, insides Dick Fisher and Bill Lingelbach, and center Dick Fisher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team Plays Brown Today; Out for Fifth Win | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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