Word: stealing
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...biggest disappointment in Full House is The Ransom of Red Chief, where two kidnappers steal a ten-year-old terror. Fred Allen and Oscar Levant would seem ideal as the bumbling criminals; instead, both play it dead-pan, leaving Red Chief--who should be the only poker face--to grovel for the laughs...
Theoretical economist Edward H. Chamberlin, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, blamed the steal industry for the wage-increase cycle which "seems to be still in its early phases and . . . it seems likely to dominate in the near future and to indicate a slow but steady rise in the cost of living for the next few months...
...profits out of beizbol, but the proletarian players are "in a condition of slavery . . . bought and sold and thrown out the door when they are no longer needed." Perhaps because the editors feared that readers might not swallow the whole story, Smena failed to mention that 1) players sometimes steal bases during a game, 2) fans have been known to call for an umpire's death, 3) sport-writers often report that a team was trounced, drubbed, thrashed, lambasted, walloped, pummeled, mauled, clubbed, axed, flayed, skinned, ripped, torn, smashed, crushed, murdered, massacred or slaughtered...
...strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging yet another "steal." A bellow issued from the audience, and Gates himself marched to the podium. There, on a point of personal privilege quickly granted by the Chair, he defended himself passionately and at great length...
...Liberal Party against the troops and military police of the Conservative government. On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated. In the llanos, 5,006 irregulars commonly ambush and cut down invading government troops and steal their arms. The guerrillas themselves are targets of futile bombing...