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Word: stealingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding unsolved problem-a wiry, older nationalist called Son Ngoc Thanh, who is holed up in the jungle. Thanh's People's Movement Party stands to do well against the royalist Union Party in the general elections scheduled for next April, and Norodom was anxious to steal a march on him. The King called a sudden, nationwide referendum. Question put by monarch to people: "Have I kept my promise to give you total independence?" The Cambodian response was overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Royal Popularity | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...history was full of attempts to play, smash, or steal it, and once, it did almost a better job of stopping Yale than the football team. I 1947, an overzealous Eli fan ran onto the filed and tried to crash through the cowhide heads. There was a tremendous bang, but the Yalie ended up unconscious and the big drum still intact...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

...right." Parp! Parp! Last week, at the Stoll Theater, Noddy and his friends went through a typical Noddy plot. As the curtain opens, Noddy is peacefully driving his Toyland Taxi ("Parp parp! Parp parp!"), when all of a sudden the Red Goblins appear. They tip over lamp posts, steal the keys that wind up the clockwork clowns, let all the animals out of Noah's ark. And who gets blamed for all the mischief? Little "Niddy Niddy Nod" Noddy, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Niddy Niddy Nod | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...keep in touch with the Order of Battle Section, Gardy struck up a romance with German named Sturm who worked there. One velvety night in November, Gardy offered to marry Sturm if he would steal for her information on the workings of the Order of Battle Section and the names of U.S. agents in East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Pretty Victim | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...Governor General Ghulam Mohammed and his tight little regime of civil servants and soldiers have suspended the Constituent Assembly, and now rule by decrees. They like to call themselves a "controlled democracy." But they realize that plain old democracy has too good a sound to let their opponents steal it. Last week Ghulam made a canny gesture to win popular support. For his new Minister of Law, he appointed Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, 61, popular leader of the opposition United Front, "and a big man in Bengal, who will now, under "controlled democracy," be expected to get along inside the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Inside Job | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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