Word: robbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later the commissioner learned the disconcerting truth. A 24-year-old pants salesman named Arnold Schuster had recognized Willie while riding on the subway, had trailed him to a gasoline station, where the bank robber got a battery for his stalled automobile, and had then gone up to the radio car in which Policemen Shea and McClellan were lounging...
...robber forced Captive Madden into his car. But Madden was hit by shotgun pellets, and his tires were flattened by bullets. The holdup man leaped out, dodged to a pickup truck in a hail of lead, got into it and drove it into a ditch. He fell out, bleeding from two serious wounds and peppered with innumerable shotgun pellets, ran 20 yds. and surrendered to a deputy sheriff...
Norfolk was more than ready for them. Its two star debaters, Murdo the Robber and Bill the Bad Check Passer, had spent weeks getting ready for the occasion. They had studied in the library, written to Washington and the American Medical Association, pored over reams of statistics and dozens of reports. Like Oxford, Norfolk had an honorable record to uphold. In 16 years of "intercollegiate" debating, it had taken on such teams as Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T. Its score: 34 victories, 4 draws, only 14 defeats...
Murdo the Robber, primed by the A.M.A., was also armed with statistics, all proving what a dismal failure a socialized health plan would be, compared to laissez-faire U.S. medicine. Oxford's Rees-Mogg was ready with an answer. "The best preventive medicine," said he, "is early diagnosis. The best way to encourage people to do this is to make medical services free. People will go to the doctors when they do not have...
...Lavender Hill Mob shows Alec Guinness at his comical best as a bank robber. At the Exeter...