Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fell 12.7 points). Fortnight ago he banned all imports from Communist China. Few Thailanders seem disturbed by Sarit's end of the parliamentary regime. "Hell," said one Thai recently, "we are saving $750,000 a year in salaries alone. We used to pay members of Parliament that to steal us blind...
Alias Dummkopf. In Hannover, West Germany, while on watch for Robbery Suspect Gerhard Kuschel, police arrested one Roy Oerl for trying to sleep in someone else's parked car, decided to let him go if he would sign a statement that he had not intended to steal the car, whisked him away when he dashed off the signature: "Gerhard Kuschel...
...Here and there, a paper abandoned objectivity, but generally with such heavy-handed scorn as to be self-defeating. The New York Daily News larded its stories so lavishly with sarcasm ("The Deputy Premier showed a capitalistic-type interest in Macy's varied wares-and didn't steal a thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp...
...years apart, she grew up in a jampacked household, the family circle swollen by two servants and seven extra boys, all apprentices from her father's thriving iron factory. No one paid much attention to her, Miyoshi remembers. She was too little. But she managed to steal into the neighborhood Kabuki theater, and had money enough for "ice" candy. Today, onstage, she sings her Flower Drum song...
...Despite everything N.Y.U. could do. Oscar dumped in 45 points, grabbed 19 rebounds. On offense he threaded nimbly through opposing players, shooting when free, passing off to teammates when hemmed in. On defense he rebounded beautifully, flicked his long arms out with lightning speed to break up N.Y.U. plays, steal the ball, intercept passes. Through it all he drew only one personal foul, though he played all but the final 45 seconds. If he had not been suffering from an injured back, Robertson might have eclipsed his own Madison Square Garden scoring record of 56 points, made last year against...