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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wives rob men of the shock-and-counter-shock of life by being over eager to protect them," Wilder said according to "The Post" and the men less exposed to life's cruelties become correspondingly less incisive writers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilder's Remark Begets Bitter Note | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...would be unfair to say more and rob Black Chiffon of whatever suspense it has; that, along with the chance it gives people to act, is just about its only virtue. It is one of those triangle stories of the husband, the wife and the offspring treated to a British mixture of the melodramatic, the mawkish and the scandalous. It is Freud for suburban housewives whose buzzing classroom is the Wednesday matinee. Offering theft as an aperitif, it follows up with a seemingly headier and more dangerous brew that is actually rather saccharine and soporific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Strike Three. In Tulsa, Okla., Coney Lee Coffey tried for the third time to rob the Lucky Seven Grill, for the third time got caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...suspense, or merely "an enigma"-has always been generally regarded as a cross between torn peepery and violation of a blindman's cup. Turning to the last page of any book requires no great critical acumen . . . Yet surprise is the mystery writer's stock in trade ... To rob him of this stock in trade by wholesale revelation in a review is not only unethical but actually damaging ... I am surprised, therefore, that TIME'S reviewer has stooped to do just this to E. C. Bentley's Elephant's Work [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...fade elusively into mountain caves, vineyards and wheatfields. In seven years Giuliano's men had killed 79 national carabinieri, 25 local policemen, 40 civilians. They had collected more than $1,000,000 in ransoms from 30 kidnapings. Like Robin Hood's men they were said to rob only the rich & powerful. Half in hero worship and half in fear, the local peasants clamped their lips tight and kept their faces deadpan when police asked questions about Giuliano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bandit's End | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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