Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They made Mrs. Jan Burke's Dedicate the favorite, watched him try to steal the race in the early going, falter and come on again in the last 100 yds. to catch Mrs. E. E. Robbins' Midafternoon by a head. When it was over, even the losers had seen their money's worth-a close and true race that had the first three horses within a yard of a triple dead heat...
...Never trust a guy who smokes a pipe. They sit around and look thoughtful, but all the time they're figuring how they can steal a hot stove...
...enough to get into real trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home...
Sign of the Era. When Juliette was 15 the Germans deported her divorced mother and her sister to a labor camp. Left to roam the streets, Juliette fell in with a band of homeless youngsters, learned to steal by day and sleep in doorways by night...
...stirred by Jean Delfau, a wealthy set designer who has come from Paris to help Papa Noris put a little theatrical glamour into his mayoralty campaign. Tamara promptly puts her overripe charms at Jean's disposal, and Hélène just as promptly decides to steal Jean from her simply for revenge...