Word: stealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Democrats moaned in the immemorial anguish of the gerrymandered. Cried they: "Steal," "dastardly," "foul blow." Replied Governor Martin: "It's just the good old American way. When we Republicans were in the minority, we bellyached when they ran over us. It just has to be done...
...lucky seventh saw a scoring jamboree with each club contributing two tallies to the festivities. BU drew blood in their half on a double, a sacrifice, and an overthrow by Fitzgibbons, Whalen scoring. As if that wasn't enough, the Boston boys pulled a tricky double steal after Glennon had drawn a pass from Jack Farley. Dillon scored on that to knot up the game...
...Commando men were landlubbers, and "the clatter of a cruiser in a gale roused desire for the lowing of cattle; and the sort of chanting that the winds make to a cabin . . . evoked an appetite for the comfortable village noises that steal by night over a long quiet distance." Before dawn they found themselves off the coast of Norway, and "high above us, on the shelf of an incidental mountain, the lovely, unbelievable, almost-forgotten picture of a lit window . . . hung in the morning darkness. For two years we had not seen such a window." But while the men stared...
Javanese who tried to steal rice were machine-gunned or seized and dragged into a public square. "Then they cut off his hands, or his head. This happened quite often...
...Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial writer Ralph Coghlan and two friends were found innocent by a Jefferson City jury of conspiring last December to steal a cannon from the grounds of Missouri's capitol. Coghlan had wanted the cannon thrown on the war scrap pile, had been balked by Governor Forrest C. Donnell. "As I was saying last December when interrupted by the Governor's silly grand larceny charge," said Editor Coghlan: "I still think the old cannon, symbol of Mr. Donnell's hair-splitting incompetency, belongs on the nation's scrap pile...