Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main test case so far, a court ordered Pedro Rodriguez Hernandez, 48, who was a convicted thief in Cuba, released from custody. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Rogers admitted that although the "indeterminate detention of excludable aliens cannot be said to violate the U.S. Constitution," that it is nevertheless "an abuse of discretion on the part of the Attorney General." An appellate court has postponed Rodriguez's release...
...hundred criminals, including accomplices. But there is a rise of random crime as well. Once, before the state was founded, the late Zionist Poet Chaim Nahman Bialik used to say that he dreamed of the day when Jews could live like ordinary people, and "I will see a Jewish thief." In that sorry sense, a Zionist dream has been fulfilled. Armed robbery and burglaries are on the rise: an auto is stolen every ten minutes. Worse, there were 74 murders in the country last year, up from...
Police in Miami recently caught one man near an expressway ramp cutting up a fallen pole with a blowtorch and loading the pieces onto a pickup truck. An even bolder thief was caught at 4 a.m. by Highway Patrol Corporal Edward Fletcher with an intact pole strapped to the side of a Datsun. "It wouldn't take a great police mind to figure out that one," said Fletcher...
Labels generally lack subtlety. A button that says RIGHT TO LIFE or RIGHT TO CHOOSE leaves little space for reservations. Yet some labels that were pejoratives have come in time to be worn proudly by the accused. Originally, Tory meant an Irish thief; gothic, now used to describe great cathedrals, was once a dismissing word for something wild and crude. In the great political transformation that has taken place since Roosevelt's day, politicians who once flaunted their liberalism have come to prefer softer labels such as progressive, moderate, pragmatic-or have sought to have it both ways...
...early days, then became known in the 1930s as the "Merchant of Menace" for exhibiting lowbudget, moneymaking horror movies at the famous Rialto Theater in New York's Times Square and who also helped import such classic "art" films as Open City (1945), Paisan (1947) and The Bicycle Thief (1948); in New York City...