Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to Congress on the use of his powers twice a year instead of once. Painfully aware that he had not sold his case for the need for foreign-aid flexibility in the Middle East, Dulles explained how present congressional restrictions on the spending of foreign aid would rob the President of the initiative that he sorely needs in the crisis. He emphasized that a vote for the Eisenhower plan would not commit any Congressman "for long-term...
Unpressured to vote Democratic (or Republican), Lausche at one point had announced that he would skip the embarrassments of the opening session. But it struck him that playing hooky would rob him of seniority in a body where tenure is next to godliness. Provided that he was on hand for the first session, his rank as an ex-governor would give him seniority over two other new Democrats: Pennsylvania's ex-Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr., 55, and Idaho's Frank Church, 32, holding his first elective office. By alphabetical precedence he would also outrank the other...
...truckdriver who worked 96 hours a week to keep his wife and two small children from starvation in a one-room apartment, Peter had his own view of Communism. Says he: "You need a special kind of character to be a Communist and rob the workers." Peter saw the Communist bosses riding around in big cars, bawling out the workers for being lazy, but it never occurred to him to join the Communist ranks. "If I'd been a Communist, I would have been a traitor to my buddies. Anyway I would have...
...that this job didn't fit his talents either, quit it and tried to land a better-paying one-and failed. Then he had a much brighter idea. "Maybe I wasn't thinking straight," he told the cops, "but I made up my mind that I would rob a bank. I thought I'd manage to get about $2,500. That much would get me through one year of school...
...Rob Raw. In Milwaukee, when police arrested her for shoplifting, learned after a brief search that she was stark naked under her coat, 23-year-old Lois Johnson explained to a matron that she wore only the coat because she didn't have a clean dress...