Word: stickups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cupid's Arrow. In New Orleans, Mrs. James C. Ragas received a shiny red valentine from a masked messenger at the door, turned over $73 after she read the inscription: "This is a stickup. Don't make any funny noises. All I want is the money...
...cold and careful mind responded to a cold and brilliant mind. The party was flat broke and Koba became the appropriations member of the Caucasian Bolshevik Bureau, i.e., he directed "fighting squads" which robbed banks, public treasuries, steamships. His biggest haul: a quarter of a million rubles in a stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although on the police "wanted" list, managed to keep in the background. He was a terrorist...
...Dream. In Detroit, soon after a passenger announced that this was "a stickup" and told him to "keep on going," Cab Driver Arthur Stevens noticed that his fare had dozed off, kept on going to the police station...
...pilots, thinking that a passenger had come in for a view of the cockpit, glanced behind them-and looked straight into the barrel of Ang's .45 Colt. Ang thrust a typewritten note at them: "Do not be alarmed. I am a desperate man. This is a stickup. Do not talk to each other." He ordered them to set a course for Amoy, some 500 miles away. Pilot Captain Pedro Perlas protested that the plane did not have enough fuel. Suddenly he threw the wheel over to the left, hoping that the 45° lurch would knock...
Audience Participation. In Englewood, Colo., a customer went into the Spencer Sporting Goods Store, asked Manager E. E. Tyson to show him a pistol, examined it, loaded it with his own bullets, aimed it and murmured: "This is a stickup...