Word: thief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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moll buzzer (underworld)-thief who preys on women
With such game afoot, the experienced Hitchcock fan might reasonably expect the unreasonable-a great chase down Thomas Jefferson's forehead, as in North by Northwest, or across the rooftops of Monaco, as in To Catch a Thief. What is offered instead is merely gruesome. The trail leads to a sagging, swamp-view motel and to one of the messiest, most nau seating murders ever filmed. At close range, the camera watches every twitch, gurgle, convulsion and hemorrhage in the process by which a living human becomes a corpse...
Rubber Robber. In Charleston, S.C., after finding no money in the cashbox of the Southern Seat Cover Co., a thief made off with five checks-all of which had been returned because they were uncollectable...
...ground, But thief steal am for night, an' ant eat some too. One of them farmers, him got plenty sense, 'E go for Barclays Bank an' they keep him money well...
...outspokenness regarded as unwarranted interference in internal affairs. For months the U.S. had suffered in relative silence while Fidel Castro's Cuban government made a mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea...