Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third time this year they made no errors, and at bat they hit Harrison harder than ever before, although only 12 balls dropped in safely. Red Scully couldn't buy a base hit, going 0 for 6, but it took sparkling play by the Blue outfield to rob him of four extra-base swats...
...Libya to Suez and Mediterranean mastery. Britain still had a creeping fear that the Germans might attempt a blow at the home island. The Chinese in Chungking, skilled at reading Japanese plans and strength, predicted an imminent Japanese assault on Russia's Siberian rear-a drive which could rob the U.S. of prospective bases for attack on Japan...
...Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...
...subject uppermost in British minds: the escape of the German ships through the Channel. To his critics he turned what those critics call the stubborn side of his character-the stubborn side which carried Britain through her darkest previous hours: "One fault, one crime and one crime only can rob the United Nations and the British people . . . of the victory upon which their lives and honor depends: a weakening in our purpose, and therefore in our unity. That is the mortal crime...
...Harlem side streets and the hilly, wooded section of Central Park next to Harlem, bands of Negro and Puerto Rican boys prey on playing children, robbing them of bicycles, skates, wrist watches, clothes. When they rob a man, they often take his pants to forestall a chase...