Word: thief
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...McNally is by far the more colorful -- and controversial. Before retiring from the New York police department in 1971, he collected 22 commendations and attained top standing as a first-grade detective, despite several internal investigations into his conduct. He is credited with collaring notorious jewel thief Jack ("Murph the Surf") Murphy in 1964. Since going private, McNally has provided his services to the defense of Patty Hearst, Bernhard Goetz and John Gotti. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, who is also part of the Simpson team, has tapped McNally's services regularly, as have other top attorneys...
...police searched the crime scene and peered in and around the car for about 20 minutes. The doors of the car were locked, and so police were unable to enter. Police found no trace of the thief...
Cline said she was walking around the car and squatted to take a picture. What she saw next frightened her--the hand of the alleged thief protrud- ing from the back seat...
...quality that has prevented his wise child from turning into a wise guy, comes harder for him. Now that Ted Danson is a movie star, or thinks he is, stupidity comes harder for him. Danson's character in Getting Even with Dad is supposed to be an inept thief, but the actor doesn't want to dig into dumbness, which is where the laughs, if any, might be. Untutored is the worst he'll allow himself to seem. Untutored, but capable of sensitivity, of love, of being a '90s beau ideal, if given a chance...
...shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...