Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, swung butchers into line, wrapped up what Investigator Kaplan rates as "millions of dollars" over a period of at least 18 months. The butchers in the "club," some of whom were doing a business of $10,000 to $15,000 a week, continued to rob their customers blind...
Celsus, Voltaire, Ingersoll, Paine et al. had the honesty to attack Christianity from outside the church. Tillich, Niebuhr, Bultmann and company promulgate their infidelity as "theologians" and "clergymen." Tillich's religious vaporings-a kind of 20th century Gnosticism-would rob Christianity of its Christ, its Bible, its God, its salvation and its sense. Tillich lights matches in the dark instead of opening the windows of his mind to let in the sun of righteousness. The miracle of the church is that it survives both open enemies like Voltaire and Trojan horses like Tillich...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...
...rich wayfarer stays the night at the cottage of poor folk somewhere in rural Europe. The greedy farmer and his wife kill their guest, rob him-and find papers identifying him as their long-lost...
...constituencies; it is a body more accessible to the average student, who probably knows his representative. The members appointed by the Masters also will strengthen the Council's ties in each of the Houses. Removing the charities appeal from Council auspices will not make the drive more representative, but rob it of an institutional framework already existing...