Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thug for J. H. Blair...
Regarding your reproduction of Goldberg's Summer House: I looked for the summer house, winter house, then just any house, but failing to find one played the game of hidden pictures instead. I was rewarded to find a masked thug, Dick Tracy, okra, and a hound dog baying at the moon while bleeding from...
...prospect of the thug-ridden Teamsters' infiltrating the nation's police was not entirely preposterous. In New York City, first target for the Teamsters, Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy said, "Don't underestimate this thing." The Teamsters claim a secret New York membership of 3,000; other authorities say that 300 is more like...
Three-Time Loser. Beefy Alfred Dugan was a thug, and he had a long and varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in Asbury Park, N.J. Paroled after five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned...
...brutally senseless crime two weeks ago, Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Nimer, both 31, were victims, it seemed plain, of a thug who invaded their Staten Island -home (TIME, Sept. 15). Son Melvin Dean, 8, told police that he was awakened and choked in the night by a white-masked prowler. The child cried for his parents, who came running. Before both died of knife wounds, Loujean Nimer is reported to have told police that the prowler was "tall as my husband, same build" (5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs.). In the public shock that followed, nobody got more sympathy than...