Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helena, Mont., when police picked up a 15-year-old boy for auto theft, the lad said: "I'm not a juvenile delinquent. I don't take hub caps and that kind of stuff. I just steal cars...
...bewildered Batonga were further unsettled by the arrival of zoot-suited agitators from the African National Congress who told them the government scheme was merely a plot to steal their ancestral land. When the dam began rising in tHe gorge, the agitators took a different tack, began selling magic tickets to the villagers that guaranteed that the "white man's wall" would be overthrown by the most potent god in Batonga mythology: the mighty Snake of the Zambesi, whose whiskers are the spray of Victoria Falls and whose tail stretches 250 miles to the Kariba gorge...
...them into "remedial" manual labor by the hundreds of thousands-may produce obedience, but hardly provides the climate for intellectual creativity. The great, vast public, foreign observers report, seems more resigned to its lot, and even grateful for the orderliness that keeps warlords from swooping down on farmers to steal their harvests. But in a nation that has only a paper-thin economic surplus to invest in industrial growth, a loss of mass enthusiasm and a consequent drop in production could be no less deadly than active popular resistance...
Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered...
...while he does not hesitate to shake up history himself, he hates to see amateur head shrinkers steal his act. "The psychological western is nonsense," he insists. "I think the western has to be honest. You kill the heavy in the end; you don't haul him off to the psychiatrist. Like I was watching Gunsmoke and there is this woman who is brutalized by a couple of heavies and she gets rescued and all she wants to do is go off to the city and become a prostitute and lead a good life. Can you imagine that? These...