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Word: stickups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vocation. In Memphis, a captured stickup man from Washington State Prison told police he had no intention of reforming: "I started out reading crime stories as a seven-year-old kid . . . and decided that was what I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Ohio to establish a hideout and a new identity in preparation for holding up a New York gangster. He goes to work in the local factory and falls in love with the manufacturer's daughter (Valli), who has been confined to a wheelchair by a skiing accident. The stickup comes off on schedule, but when Cotten's Co-Thief Paul Stewart arrives in Ashton, the New York gunmen are at his heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Nothing Personal. In San Antonio the two stickup men who held up the Gult Brokerage Co. returned Office Manager R.E. Diaz' $50 when they learned that was his own money, made off with $300 in office cash after asking to make certain that the firm was insured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...program gave details on how to snatch 75 Gs' worth of diamonds," he said. "Another showed how to 'case' a bank for a 50-6 stickup. Another told how to blackmail recently widowed women out of 5 or 10-Gs apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crime Reporter | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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