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...chores. They were paid to make repairs hold discussions, to keep a record of their activities, and even to write several paragraphs like "Why Kids Foul Up." One 17- wrote, "Because they do not have some of things they want and there is no way to them except to steal and you still do not what you want by stealing them." According a 19-year-old, "Quite frequently kids get stealing cars, so, for my first reason on why foul up, I shall say, for kicks. Most kids up because of ignorance, I mean they don't any other...
...thunderous noises could be heard offstage. The Russian press and radio breathed fire and rattled rockets, accusing the U.S. and the "imperialist West" of closing ranks behind Belgium in a plot to steal rich Katanga from the Congo. In Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah lashed out with a threat to join with Guinea's Sekou Toure as allies of Lumumba in a march on Katanga...
Missile Gap: Maybe the Russians will steal all our secrets. Then they'll be two years behind...
...adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it: Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat: Bear not false witness; let the lie Have time on its own wings to fly: Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition. The sum of all is, thou shalt love If anybody, God above: At any rate, shalt never labour More than thyself to love thy neighbour...
...offered to sell his valuable collection of impressionist paintings through Barnes, the collector repaid Stein's early kindnesses to him by reporting that he was unable to find a buyer, snapped up the lot himself for an undisclosed price, which Stein's friends bitterly described as a steal...