Word: robber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Street. I looked into the Cambridge Port Savings Bank window because I like to see myself striding along the street, at home in Cambridge. A man was standing in the main part of the bank, alone, in a gray jacket and jeans. He didn't look like a bank robber. He was wearing high tops, just like me, and I thought he might be a student...
...loan to buy some new clothes. So last week he walked into the Maine National Bank in Portland and asked a teller, Sandra Lee Cashman, 21, for some money. Although she did not see a weapon, Cashman was convinced that Sabine, who appeared "real scraggly looking," was a bank robber. Frightened, she handed over three bundles of $20 bills, totaling $1,500. Overcome with his good fortune, Sabine told the teller that he loved her, and set off to shop...
...until seeing the other half of the gun did Sobel tell his manager to give the man the $700 in the cash register. Sobel said he considered overpowering the robber, but that he could not get in the right position...
...steady diet of cops and robber and minor catastrophes, the public instead of edification during the news hour. Fed a healthier diet, low in drama and sensationalism, the average viewer could develop more refined taste...
Once, after reading in a magazine that she was "the world's most mysterious woman," Agatha Christie complained to her agent: "What do they suggest I am? A Bank Robber or a Bank Robber's wife? I'm an ordinary successful hard-working author--like any other author." Her success was not exactly ordinary. She produced nearly 90 novels and collections of stories in a lifetime that spanned 85 years. One of her plays, The Mousetrap, opened in London in 1952 and is still running...