Word: robber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would never take. In so doing, Rockefeller, 66, had to answer questions about his personal fortune that he has brushed aside throughout his 34 eventful years in public life. More than any man in the room, Rockefeller seemed to appreciate the irony of his situation. The descendant of robber barons cum philanthropists cum public servants, he wears the mantle of his heritage with easy grace, and he handled the Senators so adroitly that what could have been an ordeal turned out to be a triumph. When the former Governor of New York stepped down, the committee was clearly ready...
...robber wore a rust-colored jacket and his left hand was wrapped in an ace bandage, Karadizian told police...
...lone robber held up the Charlesbank Trust Company in Harvard Square yesterday, escaping with about $4000 in small cash...
...robber, who appeared to be unarmed, went back out the front door at the corner of Mass Ave and Boylston Street and escaped unchallenged, Karadizian told police...
...steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite) kill each other. He composes a jazzy lyric for "Kid Punch" Miller, who played trumpet with Jelly Roll Morton, and a kind of epitaph for a Pueblo Indian grave robber beset by legal problems and liquor...