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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended up last summer in the Chester County prison farm for stealing $2 worth of gas from a farmer. Released on bail, he was promptly sent back to the farm for stealing a pickup truck. Little Bruce was despondent because he had been planning to marry his girlfriend, pretty Robin Miller, 15, who lived on a farm in nearby Oxford. But he resolved to follow the family maxim: "Do your time or don't commit the crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...July, Robin visited Little Bruce at the prison farm, along with Bruce Sr. and James Sampson. Afterward, Robin went to a motel with the two men and drank most of a bottle of whisky. She later tearfully told Little Bruce that she did not clearly remember what had happened but she had passed out and awakened in the morning stripped of her clothes. Angry, Little Bruce decided to get even. On Aug. 9, he told a federal grand jury in Philadelphia about the theft ring allegedly headed by his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Pennsylvania Gothic | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Trapnell did not give up. Last May a woman named Barbara Oswald tried to rescue him from the federal penitentiary in Marion, Ill. She commandeered a St. Louis helicopter at gunpoint, but the pilot seized her gun and killed her. Oswald's daughter Robin, 17, was shattered. She dropped out of high school but continued corresponding with Trapnell, whom a friend said she regarded as "a father figure." Last week Robin Oswald boarded TWA Flight 541 in St. Louis, then announced that she was carrying three sticks of dynamite and took over the airliner. With 87 passengers aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Skyjack Sequel | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Most Promising Newcomer: Robin Williams in ABC'S Mork & Mindy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: NO BIZ LIKE... | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...camp for a week to perfect their struts and tosses. Following Labor Day they work on their half-time programs after school for two hours each day. "Sometimes my boyfriend wants to go for a Coke and he can't understand that I just have to go twirl," Robin Coburn moans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Twirling to Beat the Band | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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