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Word: robs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After four matches, the score was tied, 2-2, and the three matches in progress were each tied at one game apiece. But Peter Briggs (one), Andy Wiegand (three), and Rob Sedgewick (nine) each swept the next two games to clinch the team match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Top Navy, 6-3, To Protect Unbeaten Record | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Wilmot encourages me" Woods said. "He keeps me going; he is the minister of defense. Messing is a great guy; he is the key to my performance. He keeps saying 'all right Rob' or 'tighten up there'. Wilmot helps by just being there, but the best relationship is having Shep behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Woods' Psychological Conflict | 12/10/1971 | See Source »

Convinced that money is the problem, Lucia hatches a sort of Raffles-in-hair-ribbons plot to rob a jewelry store, fence the proceeds through her favorite newsboy, reunite her parents in New York and live with them ever after. The plot is a hilarious failure, but the robbery makes such a scandal that Grandma sends Lucia back to her mother. Lucia arrives in a glow, triumphant. "Mother, I love you. I'm home." Mother, just out of a mental hospital, begins to laugh hysterically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disorder and Early Sorrow | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

Even depth should not bother the Crimson, for Bob Sedgewick and Rob Shapiro have three years of experience at ten and eleven...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Strong Squash Team Faces Cadets; Crimson Favored in Season's Start | 12/4/1971 | See Source »

...House cranked up a campaign to defeat the proposal. Nixon returned from a Florida trip to supervise the operation; he threatened to veto the entire tax bill if the amendment were attached to it. Clark MacGregor, the chief White House liaison man with Congress, argued that the plan would rob the Treasury of money that would have to be replaced from another source. He also contended that the check-off system would "freeze out minor parties" and "render immune from change the central structure of each major party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Politics: Who Should Pay? | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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