Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven Hoods. O'Keefe's disclosures were just as fantastic as the known details of the robbery. The near-perfect crime had been committed by eleven Boston hoods, all of them veteran criminals. It had been painstakingly planned for 18 months, carefully rehearsed in several "dry runs" at the scene of the big crime. By the evening of the big heist, each member of the gang was letter-perfect in his role...
...eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have been primary suspects. In 1953 a federal grand jury refused to indict the ten for lack of legally admissible evidence. A year later Joseph F. Dineen, 57, a veteran Boston police reporter, wrote under the guise of "fiction" a magazine article and a book giving a highly accurate account of the crime and the criminals. Said one investigator last week: "We had all the pieces to the puzzle for a long time and knew pretty well how they went together, but we didn...
...neither side will be quite devoid of footballers on April 21, as several of last year's varsity are planning to turn to rugby this spring. Jerry Marsh, '54 quarterback and veteran rugger, will lead a law school contingent that may include several ex-Elis, and All-Ivy tackle Orville Tice will be back for his second rugby season...
...another: "I love that man." Ironically enough, this mesmeric lawgiver who commands such loyalty is a lonely man without real friends and apparently without desire for any. He has no small talk, and no interest in anybody else's. He is aloof from most of his colleagues, including veteran Zionists with whom he has marched since, an immigrant from Czarist Poland, he began his career as a plowboy in 1907 in a struggling settlement in Galilee...
Weiland plans to use big John Copeland on the second line occasionally and will use veteran Joe Crehoe on defense...