Search Details

Word: stealing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Yale picked up their final two tallies in the eighth inning. With one out, Eli center fielder Ray Lamontagne laid a perfect bunt down the third base line. The next batter, Ray Guidotti, walked, and a double steal put men on second and third. After the following batter struck out, Mathias singled to center, tallying both runners. When Ward hit Ray Walker, coach Norm Shepard relieved him with Kon Rossano, who struck out Schiffino to end the frame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Loses to Elis, 5-1; MacKenzie Allows 4 Hits | 6/16/1955 | See Source »

...Norman Dello Joio's The Ruby, at Indiana University, Bloomington, had an effective libretto taken from the Lord Dunsany thriller about ruffians who steal the jeweled eye of an oriental idol only to meet the idol's gruesome, supernatural revenge. New Yorker Dello Joio, 42, known for the ballet On Stage! and the opera The Triumph of St. Joan, has mastered the stage idiom, molded his music in short, restless phrases. His score was notably effective, if not very modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boom | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...significant. Yugoslavia, after all, is not a member of NATO and is bound to the West only through the Turkish-Greek triangle and United States military support. But the Soviet actions are important because they are typical of a new, positive Kremlin foreign policy which may well steal a long strategic march on the more rigid policies of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decision in Belgrade | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...noted magazine writer quite graciously pointed out a few years ago, when comparing the University's library to the Library of Congress, that although the Washington collection is officially larger, Harvard's library is in fact bigger. "This is because most of the senators steal books from the Library of Congress," the writer noted. Such praise is gratifying, especially when many people often have wondered what French assemblymen do in the Bibliotheque National. Nevertheless, to be completely honest, someone should point out that Harvard professors, while they do not steal Widener's books, do quite often "keep then indefinitely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Books and Men | 4/21/1955 | See Source »

Back Bench & Goldfish. Sir Winston, reluctant to retire but aware that he must, refused to steal any more thunder from Anthony Eden by appearing in the House of Commons on the day Eden took over. But the back-bench seat (actually on the front bench), which he firmly intends to hang onto, was standing ready and vacant for him. "The House has today lost one of the greatest frontbenchers in all its history," said Tory Walter Elliot, "but the backbenchers have gained the greatest backbencher of all times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Prime Backbencher | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 661 | 662 | 663 | 664 | 665 | 666 | 667 | 668 | 669 | 670 | 671 | 672 | 673 | 674 | 675 | 676 | 677 | 678 | 679 | 680 | 681 | Next