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Word: bandits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raise You Five. In Palermo, Sicily, Bandit Giuliano, learning that there was $3,820 on his head, retaliated, put $9,434 on Interior Minister Romita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 1, 1946 | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Good to the Last Drop. In San Francisco, Sherwood Unkefer, sore at losing $475 in a holdup, charged after the fleeing bandit, who held him up again, took a $2,200 ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...cture has all the makings of the genuine article: a pretty, sharpshooting cowgirl (Loretta Young), a vicious bandit (Dan Duryea), a stagecoach holdup, posses, fast horses, plenty of shooting, a singing cowboy hero known as Melody Jones (Cooper). He doesn't sing much, and he doesn't so much sing as mumble shyly, but it is the first time in his 51 pictures that he has sung at all, and it's a good song (Old Joe Clark). But the audience knows something is amiss the first time Gary draws his shooting iron-and almost maims himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Moving the precious cargo along China's bandit-infested roads meant constant danger. At night, the Friends slept near their cabs. Religious scruples forbid them to carry guns or to travel with armed guards. One Friend's arm was so badly slashed when he tried to ward off a robber's sword that the nerves were severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pacifist Truck Drivers | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Prince, loses the war and his life rather than cause her political embarrassment in Berlin; a scene in a raw Western U.S. town, in which Anna Maria calms the beavered natives by executing, as Salome, the hootchy-kootchy; a scene in which she reforms the quondam Confederate, turned local bandit, by her snarling contralto rendition of Der Tannenbaum (Maryland! My Maryland!); San Francisco in its heyday, which includes 1) an infatuated Russian multimillionaire (Walter Slezak), 2) the attempted pirating of a Chinese junk, 3) its sagacious proprietor, who speaks Oriental proverbs in Edinburr dialect, 4) a duel with rapiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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