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...sure if you kept stats of teams that hit the last-second shot and then can go into overtime and win, they would probably have the advantage. So I asked [my team] to show more emotion and communicate more on the floor to start of steal the momentum back...
Whether the iconoclasm of the beat writers is consistent with shoplifting is a different matter. Lamphier notes that the store sells plenty of other books that are considered to be anti-establishment, but that none of these—not even Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book—are shoplifted as frequently as the works of Bukowski, Burroughs and Kerouac...
...Murphy who would steal that momentum for good, notching the game-winning goal 6:45 into the third period, the very second Vermont’s Jamie Sifers stepped back on the ice after a cross-check had sent him to the penalty...
...Americans even coined a word for doing things without permission in this land of the unfree: "freedalisms." On one occasion, the four swam across a river to pilfer a bag of coal tar from a government construction site to repair their (illegal) fishing boat. "To steal something from the North Korean government is immediately punishable by death," Jenkins said during his court-martial. "I think we all secretly wished we would be caught." Another time, they stumbled upon an array of microphones in the attic of their house and blackmailed their leader (who feared he would suffer if his superiors...
...Gates’s family after an OWM entrusted his chariot driver (a Gates) with the information. Naturally, in true Da Vinci Code tradition, the OWM decided to be atrociously cryptic and left clues after clues after clues. Gates and his side-kick Riley meet hot, smart blonde Abigail, steal the Declaration of Independence (it’s a treasure map, duh), elude nasty baddies, and get lots of treasure and fame. Jon Voight joins the fray as elder Gates, sans large Amazonian reptiles...