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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parched for romance. Fanny Clavering, a suburban English housewife, will do nicely. One evening Fanny goes to a dinner party in honor of the members of a film company who have been shooting a picture on location in the village. In midmeal the film's darkly brooding director, Rob Quillet, leans across the table and murmurs, "Is there a rose named Fanny Clavering? If there isn't, there ought to be." Fanny's tinderdry heart goes up in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Rose Named Fanny | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

First blood went to center forward Cormack O'Malley, who capitalized on a well-placed kick by sophomore halfback Rob Knapp to blast a goal less than three minutes after the kick-off. Spectators settied back in expectation of a score in two digits, but after this opening effort, the Crimson forward line ran into a solid wall of Tufts defenders. Depleting their own attack forces to cover every Harvard player, the Jumbos managed to prevent another score in the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Soccer Team Downs Tufts; Ohiri's Two Tallies Spark 4-0 Win | 10/3/1963 | See Source »

...Mystery Theater (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Drama starring Richard Conte and Keir Dullea. When thugs invade his home, a blind man refuses the aid of the son he considers a weakling. Repeat. The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Four-eyed visitors from outer space invade Rob Petrie's home. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Sep. 6, 1963 | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...basic strength is those 300,000 lower-class guys who are ready to mob, rob, steal and kill," boasts Cecil Moore, 48, head of the Philadelphia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Awful Roar | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...year-old man was picked up by Los Angeles police after he tried to rob two banks by threatening tellers with a baseball bat. A housewife left her two children eating candy at a bus-stop in Hermosa Beach, stuck up a Bank of America branch at toy gun point for $4,000, picked up her kids and strolled away. She was arrested down the street. Ludicrous as some of these amateurs' efforts are, they do not amuse the cops. Growls one Los Angeles veteran: "When you take loot, you've lost your amateur standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Amateurs | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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