Word: robs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Triple Threat. In St. Louis, in three robbery attempts in one month, John Wisdom Wallace 1) tried to hold up a grill with a toy pistol, fled empty-handed when a waitress threw a glass of water at him; 2) tried to rob a confectionery, fled empty-handed when the proprietor shot at him; 3) tried to hold up another confectionery, was tackled by 74-year-old Owner Arnold Barnes, who sat on Wallace until the police arrived...
...high-ups rob, cheat 'em and do worse...
...with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy" of Yma's rival warblers for hanging "some question of subversion" over both their heads. The immigration officials kept their silence...
...husband blamed the ignorance of the French public at home. "They have no sympathy for us," he said. "They seem to think we're millionaires who rob the Arabs who work for us." Last week Resident General Voizard flew to Paris to take a request to Premier Mendes-France. "Terrorism has installed itself," he said. "We cannot remain passive to these attacks." Presumably that meant more troops (of which France has not enough to go around) and sterner measures. If rumors going around the Tunis bazaars have it right (and they usually have), that is just what the extremists...
...supposing your branch bank manager, in telling you the story of his conversations with his friend, said: "My friend told me that these people that he knows that want to rob the bank told me that they had a pretty good plan. They had some tear gas and guns, and they had a car arranged for the getaway and had everything all fixed up." Would you conclude from that it was a pretty well-defined plot...