Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racing bike class, freshman Rob Kirshner won in 38:44. Dan Hooper, a junior, was second...
...third highest illiteracy rate (50%), its third lowest per-capita income ($285), and one of its most ruinous rates of inflation (41%). About 1% of Brazilian landowners control 47% of the farm land. Side by side with a wealthy aristocracy dwell filth, disease and poverty so dismal that they rob men even of the urge to protest. The average life span is 55 compared with 72 for advanced countries, and 40% of all Brazilians have been afflicted with a major disease...
...Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt himself. After a grotesquely forceful solo, he engages the streetwalker-provocatively danced by Vivi Gelker-in a scorching sensual pas de deux. The gangsters move in and repeatedly stab and then strangle him. But he refuses...
...drinks in the lounge of the Alta Lodge, some folk songs by Chef Ray Conrad. In Vermont, après-ski is livelier, with apparently inexhaustible crowds carrying on until 1 a.m. at such swinging spots as the Red Rob Inn at Killington, Orsini's new Red Barn at Sugarbush, and Stowe's Baggy Knees...
Self-Doubt & Hatred. Young Robbie Frost was a spoiled brat almost from the day he was born in San Francisco in 1874. His father was a hard-drinking, Harvard-educated journalist who beat Rob often. His mother indulged the boy, taught him to love poetry and nature; she was a devout Swedenborgian who believed that she had religious visions. It was her influence, says Thompson, that encouraged Robbie and his sister Jeanie to withdraw into a private world as children...