Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of excesses when we are confronted with the essentially honest French mores. There is a great surge of opinion in the Army which is growing daily and is terribly dangerous, a hatred and contempt for our Allies, the French ('they're dirty; they'd rob ya blind') and an admiration of the Germans, coming from the superficial similarities between life in two modern industrial countries where work is a virtue and pleasure a vice. Frankly I'm very much worried about it; its potential danger in the postwar world cannot be underestimated...
...McClure haunted his usual bowling habits in favor of the "Diamond Horseshoe," better known as "The Pit." He was joined in his crimson by a portly gent from Wisconsin called Rob Rollain. We spied, about simultaneously with the house detective, our able friend Fred Diloreto eyeing the patrons in a local hotel with romance on his versatile mind...
...picked up the scent of C. B. Wiren, Rob Rollain, Randy Phillips, D. Williams, and Ben Nielsen last weeks playing the role of spenders and the mancers in many of the Hub's finer night spots. Finest, they agree, of the traveled fun spots was the Statler officer's dance, where Phillips retained the "best" honors in the "Ham" department by leading a little dance riot. Sue be liked stompin' at the Savoy...
...time in the shade of ranchers' chuck wagons in Texas, swapping yarns of gold strikes and bad men and vanishing longhorns, as he has in the university library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor...
...Hates It. Syndicator Carlin says "Joe" lives because Mauldin's native integrity has made him shun the vaudeville or adventure-story techniques that rob other comic war heroes of reality. Mauldin's explanation is simpler. He says "Joe" is just the average U.S. combat soldier, leading a life he hates so bitterly that he is fighting a war to get it over with...