Word: robber
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...America's greatest strengths is its capacity for renewal; it has shed its skin again and again to re-emerge with new life. It rebuilt itself after the Civil War and Reconstruction; it reformed itself after the cruelties of the 19th century industrial surge and the excesses of the robber barons; it picked itself up after the Great Depression; it made tremendous strides in race relations through the civil rights movement; it achieved at least partial healing after the bitter national split over Vietnam and the counterculture's nihilism...
...were just lying here and suddenly there was a crack and a bang," said Leonard. "It sounded like someone had thrown in a brick through the window...a good, loud noise." The robber entered the store by breaking its front window, police said...
...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...
...during the first half of the 1980s, increased to 6,691 last year, a 23% rise from 1985. Unfortunately, crime often pays. Of $50 million taken from banks last year, only 20% has been recovered. The most common technique is the tried-and-true "note job," in which a robber simply hands a threatening note to the teller...
...late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...