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Word: stealingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious effort to team up with his stablemate, Career Boy, and steal France's famous Prix de 1'Arc de Tromphe horse race at Longchamps, C. V. Whitney's gallant little Fisherman sprinted away from the starting wire. Far back Career Boy, Eddie Arcaro aboard, waited for the front-runners to tire in Fisherman's wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Just as impressive, in her own way, is the Jocasta of Lisa Rosenfarb. She projects the dignity of the queen of Thebes, and at the same time retains the tenderness of a loving wife. And to watch the horror of realization steal into her eyes as she recognizes that Oedipus is her own son is to witness a consumate piece of acting. A similar attention to the details of a performance can be found in Philip McCopy's portrayal of Tiresias, the blind prophet. In his single but long scene, the man personifies all the calm certaintly of truth...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Oedipus and The Critic | 10/11/1956 | See Source »

...steal in 1953? When my father was arrested, it drove my mother insane. We had no way of living. My brother, who had also worked for the U.B. was discharged because of my father, so he committed suicide. Until my father was freed under the amnesty in 1954 we had no word from him. I was sick. I had chronic skin disease when my father was arrested. My mother could not do anything for herself, and I have two young sisters who could not work. So I had to look for a job. But I could not get work anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LIFE UNDER COMMUNISM | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...them some runs, they gave them right back. Pitchers came and went. Even Brooklyn's big Don Newcombe beat a disorderly retreat. Almost reluctantly, the Braves went out in front in the eighth inning. Leftfielder Bobby Thomson promptly put an end to that rally by thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella had jumped a good yard out of the catcher's box before Pitcher Roger Craig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brooklyn's Pennant Prayer | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...welcome here as any other customer." "' Had Billingsley really banished his old pal from the heroes' gallery? " I took that picture down long enough to make a dozen prints of i−just in case somebody, I won't say who, tried to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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