Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having seen her parents machine-gunned to death by a German plane as they fled across France in 1940, becomes obsessed with ideas of death and burial. She and a boy from the family with whom she takes refuge build a cemetery for animals in an old mill, and steal crosses from local graves to mark the resting places of dead animals. Eventually they are found out, and their little game comes...
...phrase with which Gold identified himself to Greenglass: "Julius sent me." Another key witness. Max Elitcher, testified that Rosenberg had urged him to steal secret information from the Navy Ordnance Bureau...
Even the Army. Meanwhile, the commission was told that Jersey City's Claremont Terminal was considered so juicy a prize after the Army took it over in the summer of 1951 that an underworld war was fought for rights to steal from it. (The Army abandoned the pier in disgust less than six months later.) A former longshoreman named Charles Strang testified how one Walter ("Wally the Shark") Marcinski boasted of having Mayor Kenny's "O.K." on the Claremont piers. Wally, said Strang. stole cases of tools from Army tanks. "They stole so much Army equipment that every...
...ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...consumed more oil each year, says Jacobsen, is the impetus given to oil hunting by the Government's depletion allowance. (A similar allowance is also given on other minerals and on lumber.) Though Harry Truman and other Fair Deal politicos have railed against it as a tax steal, Jacobsen points out that the allowance has made possible a multitude of industries based on expanding oil production, and thus vastly added to the corporate taxpayers. "Moreover," says Jacobsen, "gasoline is lower-priced today, without taxes, than it was in 1926. If higher taxes had cut oil production, gasoline might cost...