Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the Hyde Park Hotel, Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, top African leader in Northern Rhodesia, had already attended his first meeting with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler refused to make...
...they rob and steal...
...days, when there were fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find out if he's really that good." Ernie Braca, Sugar...
After this, the audience knows that nothing painful, nothing honest, nothing real will be inflicted upon it. In Oliver twisted, the Thieves' Kitchen becomes an urban Sherwood Forest, with Robin Hood Fagin teaching his pickpocketeers to rob from the rich and give to the deserving poor-themselves. The grim workhouses, stews and drinking dens of London become playgrounds for boys with a taste for adventure. The biggest laugh of the evening comes when Fagin paternally growls at his charges, "Shut up and drink...
...case to the Supreme Court with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given to this man by whatever power gives life?" he demanded. "To rob him of his chance to repent, to expiate, to throw him straight into hell like a bundle of old rags and bones? 'Thou shalt not kill,' the Bible says. Who made us exceptions to this...