Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then one of the debutantes, beautifully dressed in fringed and beaded buckskin and wearing beaded moccasins, would steal away and snatch a few minutes' sleep, returning when the beat of the tom-toms quickened. On the third day the Apaches and their guests amused themselves with baseball, rodeo performances, powwowing, eating. On the third night they danced again...
Faced with the certainty that Adolf Hitler would try this summer to steal at least one of their Baltic "windows" and probably the entire Polish coast (see above), the Poles last week showed much the same steadiness and bravery that little Czecho-Slovakia showed last summer before she was forced by her own allies to back down. The Poles' big advantage was that they had lived and learned by the Czechs' experience...
...Germany last week the harvest, which is expected to be better than average, had hardly begun. But 60,000 Czechs, 45,000 Slovaks were brought into the Reich to gather it. Italy promised to send 37,000 katzelmacher (cat-eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded...
...second when Holt fumbled the ball. Tully scratched a single over second and advanced Hoye to third. After Tully stole second, Fulton bit a grounder over second which scored Hoye and sent Tully to third. Then Tully was trapped between third and home trying to score on a delayed steal. Fulton took second on the rundown. Keyes walked and Healey singled, scoring Fulton and sending Keyes to third. Jones scratched a single to center to score Keyes and advance Healey to second. Grondahl fanned for the third out. Five hits three runs...
...would be tempted to steal $100,000 if they could do so without being caught...