Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more than 100 years to its days as an independent republic. Raged San Antonio Oilman Fred W. Shield: "It is absolutely a steal from the state of Texas...
...June 1, however, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal Party government made a strong bid to steal the Communists' thunder. In a twelve-page note, the government gave a friendly history of the U.S. occupation, then announced that Japan was anxious to make a separate peace with any one or more of the powers with which it was still technically at war. The clear implication was that if the Western Allies and Russia could not agree on treaty terms, Japan would make peace with the West alone...
...large group of people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...
...Huks hold the military initiative in the Philippines. They raid villages, kill landlords and officials, and stage sneak attacks on Philippine army and constabulary units. A few weeks ago they boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field in an unsuccessful attempt to steal weapons...
Cage & Chickadee. The chemist is kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...