Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third European Jane is Italy's Rossana Podesta, who appears in The Seven Golden Men as a member of an international gang of bank robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...
...fertilize a farmer's crops, the sewage triggers a fantastic growth of algae on the lake's bottom. Some 87 tons of phosphates are dumped into the water each day, and each pound is capable of breeding 350 tons of slime. Because dead blue-green underwater plants rob the water of its oxygen, much of Lake Erie is now a "dead" sea incapable of supporting any fish life. When the algae eventually breaks off and floats to the surface, it clogs commercial fishing nets, blocks water-intake pipes and washes onto beaches, leaving foul-smelling deposits of decaying...
...American Newspaper Guild had made no noticeable progress. Then, suddenly, the strike was all but over. Not a single Guildsman was back at work last week, but the Sun still managed to publish morning and evening papers. "Things from our point of view are very bright," said Promotion Director Rob ert Kavanaugh. "We have a sufficient complement to put out the papers as our people know them...
...thing, the constant use of the limited four-letter vocabulary tends to rob the words of what legitimate shock effect they used to have. "Powerful words should be reserved for powerful occasions," says Novelist Philip Toynbee. "Words like money can be devalued by inflation." Stuart B. Flexner, co-author of the authoritative Dictionary of American Slang, believes that this is already happening. "The next step is to find a new crop," he says, "but I don't know yet what these will...
...fact, on the top 15 shows there are only two continuing marriages between central characters: Bewitched's Darrin and about-to-be-pregnant Samantha Stephens, and The Dick Van Dyke Show's Rob and Laura Petrie. Since Bewitched's Samantha cheats, by cleaning the house, keeping her husband and generally managing the drudgery of life through her powers of witchcraft, that leaves the title of TV's favorite average housewife to Laura Petrie by default, and it's a shame. As played by Actress Mary Tyler Moore, she could beat the pants off any dozen...