Word: robber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas Ranger, like Augustus McCrae, his partner in their Hat Creek outfit until McCrae died of stubbornness. Captain Call, getting old but tough as a boot, is a bounty hunter now. He still acts like a Ranger officer, however, and when the assignment comes to deal with the train robber Joey Garza, he wires Pea Eye, another old Ranger. He just assumes that Pea Eye will show up as if he were still under orders...
...second villain appears from over another horizon -- that of the future, perhaps. He is Mox Mox, not so much a Western badman as a modern serial killer who likes to burn people. And Garza, the bank robber, is shown to be as shrewd and ruthless as Call in his prime, and much quicker. Ranger or not, Call is really too old for this kind of thing...
...stampede. When unexpected reports of inflation caused the price to rise again last week, it just seemed to confirm his legendary nose for the market. After all, this was the man who led the raid on the Bank of England during last September's European currency crisis, a robber baron, as some called him, who emerged with profits estimated at $2 billion by selling sterling short...
...only in tactics, but in attitude. "This wasn't a normal hostage situation," said a Justice official. "Not only were they there, they were willing to do anything for this person." A congressional aide put it differently: "They acted like they thought they were talking to another bank robber. Instead, they were talking to someone who was dealing in a parallel universe...
...students were stopped at 4 a.m. Saturday in the Hilles Library courtyard by a robber armed with a knife. The robber got $5 from one student, $20 from the other...