Word: robs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a man of him, and some nights she succeeded. But humanity had to be saved, bombs had to be thrown, and Annette soon became bored. She married, in turn, a couple of impeccable British aristocrats, but she went on loving Armand-to the point of helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self-indulgent man who loved nothing but humanity . . . She had been unlucky. She could have loved a gambler, an opium addict, a common thief...
...play seems less limited for how much it leaves out of Shakespeare than for how much it puts in of Freud. Plainly, Hamlet was made for Freud, but popular Freudianism much less so for Hamlet. To put all its neuroses in one bedstead is to rob a character of his tangled richness, a story of its resonant depths, and to turn what T.S. Eliot called "the Mona Lisa of literature" into a simple blueprint. And by adhering to such things as soliloquies and ghosts, Cue for Passion never quite goes its own way either. It ingeniously makes drunkenness an excuse...
Unredeemed. In Fresno, Calif., a gunman tried to rob Sam's Fairway Grocery wearing a sheet of trading stamps over his face with stamps ripped out to make eye holes...
...Clubs tend to cut the Clubbies off from the rewards of creative undergraduate activities--dramatics, publications--at which they might otherwise spend their time, and they rob these activities of the benefits of the Club members' participation. In extreme cases, men go through Harvard and their lives enjoying little personal contact with people outside the Club world. But the lure into this breezy Clubbie limbo can easily be overcome, and there are more and more Club members today whose college interests and acquaintances are fairly well shuffled. It also can be argued that the Clubs, where interests differ but social...
...Bananas. Turning up at Moscow's Hotel Sovetskaya for his first diplomatic reception since last summer, Nikita carefully nursed one small shot of vodka all evening as he toasted visiting General Hakim Amer, Nasser's grinning top soldier, and roasted "the imperialists and colonialists who try to rob and impose a perpetual yoke on the Arab people." The Soviet Union, "which harbors no such ambitions because it possesses all they have except bananas," said Khrushchev, "will not give a kopeck" to any joint East-West program for economic assistance. "We will help them ourselves." At a Kremlin reception...