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Word: robbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call off Jewish deportation was followed up by a heavy bombing of Budapest, and ordered the deportation stopped. He was overruled by Eichmann. An Eichmann lieutenant proposed that Jews be deported at a rate of 3,000 a day; Eichmann-fearful that the advancing Red army might rob him of his prey-boosted the rate to 12,000 daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Tic | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

...have to listen to what the others say." As for money -here the master is even more impossible. He is as miserly as a Swiss shopkeeper, while remaining as ingenuous as a child, and he has long been certain that the whole world has been out to rob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corbu | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

Ocean's 11. This laughing gasser about an attempt by Frank Sinatra and his lout troupe (Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford et al.) to rob five Las Vegas casinos is slapdash slapstick, but that's the way the kookies rumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

...jollier lot has not tripped the screen since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff), to rob five Las Vegas casinos at the same time-to wit, when everyone in town is singing Auld Lang Syne on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Like all the Disney adaptations of famous boys' books (Treasure Island, Rob Roy), Kidnapped shuns the grandeurs that encumber most of Hollywood's hysterical historicals. The picture is made to the scale of the book, which is modest. Unfortunately, in trying to keep it small, Director Stevenson has also made it insignificant; and in trying to temper its excitement, he has let it become dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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