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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious sense, Nixon's wrong, Sixty-one per cent of the electorate assured Nixon a welcome mat at the White House doorstep. But they didn't welcome Nixon to lie, rob, spy, fix judicial decisions to his heart's delight, or use his great and good position for medium to fair personal profits here and there. Not even a welcome mat at one's own home is a mandate for thieves to come and rob him blind; the people may have picked up Richard Nixon's option for the presidency, but they included no clauses in their second four-year...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Give the Guy a Job | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...newspapers and on the radio today.' He was talking about the Valerie Percy thing." Last week Robert Stanfield, 29, an acquaintance of Hohimer's, came forward to disclose that Hohimer had informed him two weeks before the murder that he had cased the mansion and intended to rob the Percys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Percy Lead No. 273 | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...Nixon said to Mr. Dean. But the issues also include what Mr. Nixon said to the milk producers in return for hundreds of thousands of dollars, what he or his agents did for ITT in return for a subsidy to the Republican Party, who authorized the plumbers to rob private offices and what other offenses against law and decency they committed, and whether a president can violate the Constitution and lie to the Congress about a secret war in Cambodia...

Author: By Bob Shrum, | Title: The Watergate Mythology | 12/4/1973 | See Source »

...teams' performances were nearly equal in the scoreless first half of play. Harvard's Dennis Kloske and Rob Finley tried repeatedly to score against Brown, but their drives toward the net floundered for lack of a teammate to finish the drive...

Author: By Randy K. Mays, | Title: J.V. Kickers Lose Rematch to Brown | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

...rate, Lenin put his finger on the most important aspect of imperialism-- not only did it rob its victims, it then broke their arms and legs, creating twisted cripples incapable of growth. The distortion extended to the sphere of culture and ideology as western ideas and values were forced on colonial societies. Vietnamese peasants worshipping French heroes and Chileans seeing Gone With the Wind in Santiago theaters were being silently robbed of the opportunity to draw upon their own past and to develop their own culture in terms of their own experience...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Imperialism: Then, and Now | 11/16/1973 | See Source »

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