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Word: rustler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight, stock-in-trade western fare. From all over the courtroom, angry cattlemen glowered at the captured rustler. And the rustler himself, a bull-necked hombre who liked heavy gambling and fancy women, was perfectly cast. All that marred the illusion was the scene of the trial-not Dodge City but Düsseldorf-and the repeated references to the rustler's favorite steed: a Mercedes 300 limousine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...young a man driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound to a close, he was clearly headed for the kindest fate a rustler can expect: a long stretch in prison. Worse yet, as part of his punishment, the state prosecutor was demanding confiscation of Rustler Roden's trusty Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...food. Last month, when a rash crook kidnaped half a dozen prizewinners and sent one of his own homers with a ransom note, the whole valley rose in wrath. Pigeon partisans tagged the go-between pigeon with streamers, trailed it by plane back to its loft, and turned the rustler over to the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watch on the Ruhr | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first love." And then he leers. "Only from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...Rustler. In Omaha, police looked for the man who rang Irwin Chapman's doorbell, pointed a pistol at him, growled, "I want that," made off with his son's rocking horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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