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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relaxed, energetic Joe stumped the state wearing his old khaki shirts. He shrewdly wooed conservative farmers with attacks on Washington bureaucrats, skirted the touchy foreign-policy issue, chided his opponent for a long absence from home. Backed by the regular G.O.P. organization he accused errant Progressives of trying to steal the Republican party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turnabout | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Reutlinger that I almost punched him in the puss," said she. "But they're going to go along with me. . . . Heirens didn't do this. Call it woman's intuition. But if he did, then I'll just pack my bags quietly and steal out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wuxtry! Read All About It! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...wouldn't give it to some stranger." Craig Rice was having the time of her life covering the case. Said she: "God, how I'd love to be the one to crack it. And maybe I will." A few days later she made good her promise to steal out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wuxtry! Read All About It! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...large scale funds and talent toward the solution of a large-scale problem. A project of the same type at Harvard could not be completed in time to ease the September squeeze. Now University Hall must scramble to avert tragedy with all the means it can beg, brow or steal over the summer. It is also too late to fret over the eyesore quality of a colony of Quonset huts. The alternative picture of a family of three living in one room is not pretty either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wistful Vista II | 6/21/1946 | See Source »

...Liars will steal and rogues will murder, if necessary, to accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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