Word: robs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to hire a boxcar and head south was shy, skinny John Red, 30. Says John, who hadn't had a haircut in months: "People will think you got money if you dress up. They might try to rob you." He took eight horses and one pony south...
CHILDREN OF VIENNA (223 pp.)-Rob-erf Neumann-Dutfon...
Next day, an anguished howl was heard across Paris. The chiffoniers cried thatthe Prefect was out to rob 50,000 people of their honest work. Several thousand gathered in cramped, dim-lit Jean Jaurès Hall to hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter...
...recent practices, Chase has had two lines and four defensemen in uniform in preparation for the Terrier title. John Crocker, Rob Feleney, and Dave Farrell have been performeing together as one trie of forwards, opposed by Wally Sears, Art Lae, and Dave Key, while Ollie Taylor, Bill Glidden, George Gobelein, and George Tilghman have been serving at defcuse...
...police blotter showed that the world had barely missed an intensification of the crisis. On the night before the fateful holdup, one Joseph J. Hall set out on a nefarious enterprise with one Ronald E. Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...