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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition. He can't help being baby-faced and short. Nor is he responsible for the school board president's mooning from a car on the highway. Likewise, the mayor had no way of knowing that the day he made a symbolic bank withdrawal that his disturbed brother would rob another bank. But the most important spectacle for which Kucinich has been unfairly blamed is the financial collapse of the city of Cleveland...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Bare Knuckles in Cleveland | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

SoHo linebacker Rob McCormisch said the successful last minute drive was due to "a ballsy offense and a keg of beer" waiting on the sidelines...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: South House, Quincy Stay Unbeaten | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

...stepped in, it would have been very difficult to move on this question. The war is about land, and the British were protecting the settler element's right to keep land to themselves. But this does not mean we want to rob the white settlers of their land. The whites are an essential part of the country and therefore they must have some land as citizens. Only that land that is not fully utilized will be made available to other people. This arrangement would affect perhaps half of the white-controlled land. Private ownership is a foreign ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nkomo: We Are Not Villains | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...marvelous Melanesian named May, an oafish Belgian named Hugey and a 30-year-old Canadian farmer's daughter who throws away her sedate life for the promises of a man she met once in Bangkok--he roams the Asian continent, Sobhraj is more than a simple drug and rob man; he is a conman, hustler and egomaniac. And he is successful...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Snake in the Asian Grass | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...blood they shed, the more they seem to crave. One youth is picked up on the street, taken back to the loft and butchered piece by piece. The remains are trussed up like a frozen turkey and thrown into the sea. Their new-found religion forbids the recruits to rob or rape their victims, but that scarcely deters them. One of them removes a blood-specked ring from a woman he has hacked to death and gives it to a friend for his new bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kill! Kill! Kill! | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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