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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galapagos Islands. After the yanquis left, hard times came back. He called on the Virgin to help him win the national lottery, but no such miracle took place. Said Sanchez: "From that day I felt in my heart hate and vengeance for the Virgin." He determined to steal the wooden image, and burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hate & Vengeance | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...often the flower plays too rough, and the snap of the pistil knocks the bee for a loop. Tough wild bees will take this punishment. Gently bred tame bees will not. They sneak up on the flower and steal its nectar stealthily without springing the pistil. The flower thus remains unfertilized and bears no alfalfa seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lay That Pistil Down | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Steal (RKO Radio) is a melodrama with some real assets: 1) it was handsomely photographed against handsome Mexican backgrounds; 2) it has one of the fastest and longest chases of the current season; 3) it never once pauses long enough to draw a serious breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Spoils System. In Denver, Kenneth Sigrist admitted that he had broken into District Attorney Bert Keating's automobile with intent to steal, but protested, "What's he hollering about? I voted for him, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

White-haired Judge Albert Reeves, 75, mounted the bench, and the crowded courtroom was hushed. "The defendant will rise," intoned the marshal. "What say you, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, as to count one [espionage]?" In a firm voice the foreman replied: "Guilty." And to count two [stealing government documents]? "Guilty." Judy sank back, chin in hands, no longer the "simple little girl in love" that Archie Palmer called her, but the convicted spy with "the agile little Swiss-watch mind," as the prosecution called her-a trusted employee who had used her job in the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Guilty! | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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