Search Details

Word: robbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Five players are presently battling for the last two positions on the ladder. Senior Reggie Foster played at eight and nine last fall but may be held back by class work this fall. Two others, Rob Shapiro and Bob Sedgewick have two years of experience playing at ten and eleven...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Barnaby: Whistlin' the Same Ol' Tune | 11/11/1971 | See Source »

...memory of childhood injustices suffered before World War II in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. "The glory about the melting pot is a myth," say Heck. "Too many melted into whatever it took to get ahead." Tormented by the need for some kind of psychological revenge, he decides to rob a Williamsburg bank, to steal back that part of himself stolen by the ghetto. It is a pure case of grand larceny as grand therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Theft as Therapy | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...Business School came on strong in the second half, penetrating deep into Harvard territory. Rob Klugman of the B-School broke two blocks and ran in for a try. The conversion was unsuccessful but the B-School still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruggers Lose To B-School | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

...dirty shame that the pay is so low in the workhouse at Attica. If they get a raise, maybe I'll quit working for a bank and rob one instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1971 | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...Author Gibson, 28, is in his ninth year of a sentence for murder during armed robbery. "I went to rob him," he says of the farmer who was his victim. "No gun. I hit him with a stick. He lived five days and died. I got $560." And a 45-year prison term. "I was a fool. I'm so goddam sorry, but what good does that do now?" Gibson, a high school graduate, worked as a stone polisher on the outside. In prison, he scribbled the play on scraps of paper to kill time when he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Playwrights in Residence | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

Previous | 592 | 593 | 594 | 595 | 596 | 597 | 598 | 599 | 600 | 601 | 602 | 603 | 604 | 605 | 606 | 607 | 608 | 609 | 610 | 611 | 612 | Next