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Word: robbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What did Bosket do to deserve such barbarous treatment? Plenty. He was 15 when he shot to death two New York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Kill, I'll Just Maim | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...inmates to make room for muggers, rapists and other violent criminals. Sometimes their judgment goes awry. Ronnie Fisher was sprung from Fulton County Jail last month while awaiting trial on car-theft and drug charges. Barely an hour after he was set free, police caught him apparently trying to rob a man on an Atlanta street. Georgia still plans to release 3,000 inmates by July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Bulging Prisons | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Senior Co-Captain Rob Griffith, the Ivy Player of the Week in early April after a five-goal outburst against Penn, was selected to the second-team midfield. Attackers Mickey Cavuoti, the team's leading point producer (16-20--36), and David Kramer, the top goal scorer with 21 tallies, earned honorable mention...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Breakin' Out 'Til Next Year | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...phone was connected the day after my three roommates and I arrived during Freshperson Week. I brought along an answering machine, and my roommate Rob came with his brown AT&T phone...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Frosh Phone Follies | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...answering machine had provided Rob with hours of entertainment. He loved to make up cute messages, and my personal favorite was the one that went, "Hello? [five second pause] Hold on, I'll check. [five more seconds] Sorry, he's not here, but NEITHER ARE WE! [hysterical laughing] So please leave a message." Unoriginal as it may be, that one received some priceless replies. However, we changed the message pretty soon...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Frosh Phone Follies | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

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