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Word: stealingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell you something. They don't roar around the bases like they used to. The first time I face Jackie Robinson, they tell me he steals home six times. I don't need anybody to tell me. It's in the papers, ain't it? So I watch him and I say: 'He ain't gonna steal on me.' I got me a play all set for him. So he gets on third base the first time and off he goes. He's already sitting back in the dugout when my fellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...them will have to be hog-wild to throw a ball past him back of the plate. At bat he has a sharp eye, seldom goes after bad pitches. When he gets on base he is perfectly capable of churning his chubby legs fast enough to steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: CASEY v. BROOKLYN | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel. At about this time, his fingers stick to a lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges. And so it goes, until Felix is off on a world tour with the title of marquis (bogus) and letters of credit (genuine) on banks from Lisbon to Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Old Man's Art | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Miner had jumped the gun on the hearings, with a North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Manicured Fistful | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...party, industry, state and army. "He has no blind side," says one French authority. An American diplomat judges that Bulganin is stronger than most Westerners suspect. "I got the impression," said another, "that he takes orders from no man." In public appearances, however, he seems content to let Khrushchev steal the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Chummy Commissar | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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