Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah's court and the government could not agree on whether to hold the court-martial in public and run the chance that Mossadegh might steal the stage, nor had they settled on the punishment to be exacted. Theoretically, he could be condemned to death as a traitor. But in the streets, Mossadegh still commanded great popularity, and the Communist-led Tudeh (in spite of vigorous government efforts to defang it by throwing its leaders into jail) was busy last week cooking up sentiment for a pro-Mossadegh uprising. Those who feared that Mossadegh's wizardry might live...
...hiding in a tunnel." The tunnel was Corregidor, the book's title was a little wrong, and the accusation was unfair, but it went over fine. Then the shaved heads took up a report that Romulo had plagiarized from Adlai Stevenson. "Why didn't you steal a speech from Eisenhower?" "Because I am going to lose...
...when the family was settled down in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., 14-year-old Corny was the acknowledged skipper of the 25-footer, and had set about learning racing tactics in competition: to get the jump on rivals at the start, maneuver a boat so as to steal the wind from a leading boat and pass her, cut a rival off at the turning of a mark or crossing the finish line...
While ABC waited, CBS and NBC worked feverishly against time. In England, hoping to steal a march on its rival, NBC borrowed a Canberra jet bomber, loaded it with their own and CBC's first films of the coronation, sent it off two hours ahead of the three Canberras that were standing by to carry the films of all the networks to Goose Bay, Labrador. Two hours out over the Atlantic, NBC's special jet ran into mechanical trouble and had to turn back...
House gave up two runs in the fifth. Butters walked with one out, Dick Scheer singled him to third, and Butters scored on a successful double steal. Wise singled in Scheer for the second run of the inning...