Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Square was a funky urban paradise, were walking along Dunster Street. Out of nowhere, a hyperactive skinhead ran up to us, punched me in the nose and promptly ran away. I don't lack experience with the big city. The standard mugger protocol is to ask for the wallet, and failing victim compliance, to take it by force. This clownish freak skipped that step entirely. What is done in other cities for lucre is done here for love alone...
Chan took Tay's wallet and, according to police, the boys later divided the money among themselves. They buried the body in a shallow grave they had dug under a rubber tree in the backyard. Kim wore gloves to drive Tay's car away from the house, and left it with the keys in the ignition in the largely working-class city of Compton, near Los Angeles. By 9 p.m., the Tays had begun to worry and called their son's friends looking for him. Just an hour later police found his stripped car in an alley. By this time...
...made a mistake. Sleepy and stressed, I rushed out of my Claverly Hall dorm room for an exam early Saturday morning and left my keys and wallet locked safely inside...
...beat Yale in football, especially for olderalumni, is a very heartwarming thing and hopefully[leads to] an unbundling of the wallet," saysErnest E. Monrad '51, a long-time fundraiser forthe University...
...founder and leader of the crime-fighting, beret-wearing volunteer group known as the Guardian Angels, says six of the group's early exploits were just publicity stunts. The hoaxes, which Sliwa says ended in 1980, ranged from a kidnapping Sliwa blamed on cops to a story about a wallet returned to an elderly mugging victim. The Angels have long been controversial, and some press reports allege Sliwa has yet to own up to all such misdeeds. Still, Sliwa says his honor is intact: "My reputation in New York was almost mythically heroic, and this is just a hard reality...