Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, Rate is expected to see extensive action for the first time since his injury. Physically, the varsity is in very good shape, although linebackers Bob Hardy and Rob Messer took it easy most of the week because of various brumps...
...addition, the stereotype of Anglo-American imperialism would gain new vitality, for after all, wouldn't an invasion mean an attempt to force American policies down Asia's throat? Interference of this sort would only solidify Asiatic sentiments against the United States, and rob it of whatever prestige it still retains...
...community center across the street, Ikemen raised bitter placards reading "Rob With Bob" and "Graft with Taft." Then they opened their own convention with a prayer by the Rev. N. O. Carrington: "We like Ike. God likes Ike. We will nominate and elect him." Shouting Ike instead of aye, the Ikemen instructed their own delegation to the National Convention to cast 33 votes for Ike and five for Taft (from the districts that he really won). Before they adjourned, Harris County Chairman Ingraham shamefacedly walked in to say "I regret the type of campaign that has been waged...
...story told of Alemán in Havana: on the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1948, he and some henchmen drove four Ministery of Education trucks into the Treasury building. All climbed out carrying suitcases. "What are you going to do, rob the Treasury?" joshed a guard. "Quién sabe?" replied baby-faced Joseé Alemán. Forthwith, his men scooped pesos, francs, escudos, lire, rubles, pounds sterling and about $19 million in U.S. currency into the suitcases...
...muttered to Goethe: "Keep your arm linked in mine; they must make room for us, not we for them." Yet in 1812 the man who had liberated music from its classical bounds, and raised composers to something more than servants of a court, wrote to a friend, "Do not rob Handel, Haydn, Mozart of their laurel wreaths: they deserve them; I have not yet earned mine...