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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curbstone theology which holds that God is black, the ancient Israelites were black, and that today's blacks descend from the Old Testament's Jacob. He took credit for introducing Chenault to these ideas, as well as to his belief that black ministers are "liars" who rob their followers of "millions of dollars a year." In Chenault's Columbus apartment, police found a list of ten black churchmen and civil rights leaders, headed by Martin Luther King Sr. Not seeing him in church, Chenault may have picked King's wife as a substitute target. (Police also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third King Tragedy | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...alone in a midtown hotel on West 44th Street-"just opposite the Algonquin" and only a few steps away from The New Yorker -and she has a canny, survivor's eye for a bargain. "The coffee at Bickford's is only 16?," she will say, "but they rob you at Childs." She broods on the differences between Woolworth's and Lamston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moments of Recognition | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...death of Michael Gaughan, 24, an Irish Republican Army member and Catholic Ulster's newest martyr, in an English prison could have proved the spark. Sentenced in 1971 to seven years for conspiring to rob a London bank for the I.R.A., Gaughan began a hunger strike March 30 as a show of solidarity with two other I.R.A. hunger strikers, Dolours and Marion Price (see box page 38). His weight had dropped from 160 Ibs. to 84 Ibs. The British government said that he died of pneumonia; Gaughan's family insisted that Michael died after prison doctors injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Waiting for the Explosion | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Harvard's top player, Ken Lindner, defeated senior Rick Woolworth, 6-3, 6-2, while second man John Ingard, a junior from Lincoln, Mass., edged Rob Tesar, 6-4, 7-6. Gary Reiner, in the third singles slot, downed Steve Davis...

Author: By Elizabeth P. Eggert, | Title: Netmen Smash Dartmouth, 7-2, To Earn Sixth EITA Victory | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...gang selling out Bowie to get leniency for her imprisoned husband--to bring about their ends. Robbery here is a profession like any other, but more subject to the weaknesses of love and personal necessity, more professionally proud than other professions, because it gets in your blood, makes you rob finally not for cash but for further notoriety. Robbers never know when to stop...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Honor Among Thieves? | 4/30/1974 | See Source »

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