Word: robs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robin Hood robbed the rich to give to the poor. President Nixon's welfare reform legislation would rob the near-poor to give to the poor...
...Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany''s other rulers. For more than five years, they have kept him in limbo. He is allowed...
...much like a bad Depression novel where the unthinking masses are hauled off to a sheep-like death. On the verge of starvation (and Christmas) Peter and Joey rob a grocery store, bashing in the skull of a clerk who tries to stop them. At film's end they are in flight: once again goin' down the road, probably to another half-year of good times, hard knocks, tedium, and a folk guitar strumming on the soundtrack...
...been a wicked ol' man," confesses Thorpe. "But one thing I've never done is rob anyone of money." Money, he says, was never his aim. "It was the sheer thrill of moving in and out of the trees and bushes, the excitement of never knowin' what might happen next to you. You get a lovely eastern sky at dawn and the geese comin' in toward you−it's a picture some people never see in their entire lives. If I had my time over again, I wouldn't do any different." Then...
...different sort of instinct for Americana was evident in the Sierra Nevada where 100 years ago, a poetastering highwayman named Black Bart used to rob stagecoaches and leave behind such doggerel...