Word: robs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Author Gibson, 28, is in his ninth year of a sentence for murder during armed robbery. "I went to rob him," he says of the farmer who was his victim. "No gun. I hit him with a stick. He lived five days and died. I got $560." And a 45-year prison term. "I was a fool. I'm so goddam sorry, but what good does that do now?" Gibson, a high school graduate, worked as a stone polisher on the outside. In prison, he scribbled the play on scraps of paper to kill time when he could...
...instance, is often stimulated by the victim's negligence, swindles by his greed, and blackmail by his guilt. Murder can be invited by belligerence: in 1969 a national study of bus drivers showed that three who were killed during robberies had vowed not to let "any punk kid" rob them, and had carried and tried to use guns in violation of company rules. In other cases, suicidal wishes have provoked murder-a phenomenon that the mother of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Dwight Johnson may have recognized when she surmised that her son, shot while committing a holdup...
...beginning, at least, was decidedly unclassy. When the horse finally arrived in Louisville, he was haggard, bruised, feverish and 51 lbs. underweight -just five days before the Derby. Arias, who believed that the speed trials favored by American trainers rob a horse of his stamina, worked Cañonero at a leisurely trot. A 100-to-l shot on some tip sheets, Cañonero moved from deep in the pack to win by 3¾ lengths. "What do they have to say now!" cried the jubilant Arias...
Harvard almost broke the game open in the eighth against relief pitcher Rob Nelson. Kelly started the charge with a single to left and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by McGugan, a single by Ignacio, and a sacrifice fly by DeMichele. After a talk with coach Ted Throen. Nelson walked Varney intentionally and got Bernard to ground out to first...
...Others specialized in X-ray crystallography, a technique for deducing a crystallized molecule's structure by taking X-ray photographs of it from different angles. Physicist Max Delbrück turned to nature for his investigative tools: bacteriophages (literally, "bacteria eaters"), tiny parasitic viruses that invade their host bacteria and rob them of their genetic heritage...