Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they've just seen the Red Sox front office pull what may well turn into the steal of the decade. Yet, judging from the reports in the local press, the Big Trade has won Messrs. Cronin and Boudreau nothing but razzberries...
...West Virginia primary, the Oregon situation was reversed. With the local Republican machine solidly behind Taft, Eisenhower's name was not entered. Taft defeated Harold Stassen, his only opponent in the popularity contest, by a four-to-one margin. Taft was equally successful in squelching an effort to steal two or three of the state's 16 Republican delegates for Eisenhower. He won all but one. On the Democratic side, there was no contest; the 20 delegates elected will go to Chicago uninstructed...
...stayed on to battle the unsympathetic Cambridge cops for four hours. Both riots served chiefly to dramatize a newer and more outlandish form of campus disturbance which took form March 20, when a mob of University of Michigan males suddenly headed for the women's dormitories to steal and brandish girls' underwear...
...that my opinions were inaccurate. Little did I realize how savagely aggressive a police force could be in dispersing a rally which, as in London, had been permitted by the local police chief. I dread to think what the Cambridge constabulary would have done should I have tried to steal a cap or two. It is not hard for me to remember the good-humored way in which a group of London policemen would control the crowd, and I shudder when I think of the antics of last nights "riod squad." Perhaps a Harvard student would be naive to anticipate...
...while suspended judgment may be possible in matters of opinion or unfinished scientific research, it is not possible on any deeper level of life. We may suspend judgment . . . about the cause of the sudden inroad of lamprey eels in Lake Michigan, but we cannot suspend judgment on whether to steal or be honest, or on whether man is a mechanism or a soul...