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Word: robbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Providence, Brown meets Penn. Brown is supposed to have come up with its best team in years, with quarterback Jim Dunda passing, fullback John Kelley running, and halfback Rob Hall doing both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton, Lions Quakers, Brown Begin Ivy Play | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

...major promotion about five minutes too late-the twerp has just posted a sizzling letter of resignation. Can he get the letter back before it flies from Dublin to London? He rushes to the mailbox. "Sorry," says the mailman, "it's state property now." He tries to rob the mails. "Sorry," says a Dublin cop, "you can tell it to the judge." He cuts and runs to the airport. "Sorry," says the pilot of a chartered plane as it nose-dives at a hedgerow. "Never flew this plane before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Standing Pat | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...than Little Caesar, less convincing than The Roaring Twenties, and less tuneful than Guys and Dolls. Proceeding on the reckless assumption that an old movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. pretend to be vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot, and Bing Crosby pops in from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mafia, with Music | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill me, but I'm not going to let you rob me." That kind of shook the thugs, and when she screamed they faded faster than a telltale wrinkle, without so much as laying a finger on anything in the joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 29, 1964 | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

This year's JV's include Charles Welch, stroke, Brian Clemow (7), Rob Gardiner (6), Alex Whiteside (5), Bob Abrams (4), Ed Quattlebaum (3), Eric Friberg (2), Steve Samborski bow, and John Ukovic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV Heavy Oarsmen May Row at Henley | 5/19/1964 | See Source »

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