Word: filches
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...DIDN'T anyone filch a few hundred grand...
...those companies, Frito-Lay, the maker of GrandMa's Rich'n Chewy, has now countersued P & G for trying to eliminate competition in the $2.4 billion-a-year packaged-cookie industry. While denying that an employee had misrepresented himself in order to filch secrets, Frito-Lay admitted that it sent a worker to photograph the outside of a Duncan Hines bakery. But, the firm said, the man's college-age son acted without its knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos...
...dreams and occasionally immobilized by horrific memories of the war. The British-American intelligence team that has picked up disturbing signals from the Soviet Union is less concerned with his mental state than his still keen airman's skills. They want him to sneak into Russia, filch the futuristic fighter plane that provides the film with its title as well as its best moments, and wing it out of there. Disguises, fake papers, sly street-corner meetings in Moscow, a chase on the subway, murder in the men's room-the stuff of uncounted spy movies is piled...
...religious taxonomy. In fact, the book was so eagerly awaited in church circles that ecclesiastics began to visit Barrett's modest, cluttered offices in Nairobi for years before completion to find out how the numbers were running. A few men of God could not resist the temptation to filch advance copies. Now that it has been officially published, the World Christian Encyclopedia, even at the retail price of $74.50, will seem to many people concerned with the state of the world's religions like a real steal...
...cried. My father found it difficult to swallow at dinner. Our dog--sensing our grief--didn't even circle the table waiting for an opportunity to filch our suppers. We all resolved that the Redskins would "have a date at Super Bowl VIII." Alas, it was never...