Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tulsa, Okla., Negro George Tipton, held for the theft of a lawn mower, explained: "I didn't steal it. I stumbled over it and was too lazy to walk around it -so I just pushed it away...
...this breath-taking proposal to steal a march on the New Deal, Manager Hamilton snapped: "Mr. White will have one vote out of the 18 from Kansas. Nobody is authorized to speak for Landon but Landon himself." Nonetheless Editor White was named Kansas' member of the convention's Resolutions Committee, thereby became wielder of the Landon pen in the writing of the platform. Constitution-loving Candidate Borah denounced the amendment proposal as a "matter of political expediency." But it remained a prime subject of convention talk, especially after Herbert Hoover paused at Ogden, Utah...
...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...Houston, San Antonio and Dallas where, presumably on the day that the Republicans nominate their candidate, he will address a rally of 40,000 Texans at the Texas Centennial Exposition. For this simple plan some wiseacres attributed to the President great political astuteness and an impish desire to steal headlines from the Republican convention...
Early men were grouped into small hordes which had their own hunting grounds and, for self-preservation, intense feelings of solidarity. Members of other hordes were alarmingly different in customs, speech, appearance. In addition, these outsiders might poach on the hunting ground, steal roots and fruits. Hence it was an act of merit to kill them. As the art of hunting improved and methods were found of storing food, famines diminished and the hordes grew larger. Small, weak hordes were exterminated. The increase in size and decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations...