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Word: robbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks, but it took a writer of superlative skill -- not to mention sophistication -- to mingle folklore, radical politics and social satire as supplely as he did in Pretty Boy's famous chorus: "Well it's through this world I ramble/ I've seen lots of funny men/ Some will rob you with a six-gun/ And some with a fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When Folk and Rock Get Together | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...white- collar crime wave is spurring a cleanup operation. -- How to rob * banks without a gun. -- Going after the trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page August 15, 1988 | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned to the U.S. in 1971. That year, Austin was killed by police as he tried to rob a New York City bank. The FBI says Grinage has lived under a dozen different aliases during the past two decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: The Hijacker From Havana | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...Fenway for Boston's 5-0 win over the Brewers on Sunday. The Sox were a half-game behind the Yanks and logic told me to root for the Brewers. But how could I root for Dale Sveum, the Brewer shortstop? Or even Rob Deer, who swings more than the Glen Miller band...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Bronx Yankee in King Roger's Court | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...Lowe goes to Washington. The Democratic National Committee was baby sitter to a contingent of Brat Packers and other Hollywood luminaries: Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Ed Begley Jr., Ed Asner, Morgan Fairchild and the ubiquitous Rob Lowe half disguised by scholarly-looking glasses. Their cicerone in Atlanta was Tom Hayden, who escorted them to seminars and around the convention floor. While on the floor one day, Fairchild spied Joe Kennedy Jr. Unable to get his attention, she accidentally on purpose bumped into him, then apologized with histrionic surprise, "Excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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