Word: robber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...
...phrase is gathering new meaning among U.S. businessmen. The phrase is "company raiding," but very few businessmen agree on a precise definition. Originally, the term was coined in the robber-baron days of the late1800s and bore connotations of watered stock, rigged markets, stolen company assets. Today, some businessmen use the phrase to describe shrewd investors who snap up an undervalued company with the idea of liquidating it for a quick profit; others apply it to investors who take over such firms and ram through drastic changes to improve the properties and turn in bigger profits. The phrase has been...
Cleavers, Axes & Therapy. At 9:45 one morning, four prisoners-two murderers, a robber and a pervert-seized a guard...
Included in the Center's reports are isolated examples of occasions which show the power of love against aggression and enmity. "At Pee, Siberia," Sorokin recorded, "during the famine, a young relief worker assigned to drive oxcarts over robber-ridden roads, refused a military escort. When robbers did stop him, he asked them to help him transport the food to the starving people. Instead of attacking him, they helped...
...touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he says. "The lady thought for sure I'd sold out the nation's birthright to the robber barons. That happens quite a bit with people who haven't learned that conservation today means cutting down trees, not just leaving them to rot in noble splendor...