Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saracoglu ("Sarah" to Allied newsmen) linked arms at the bar with British Ambassador Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen ("Snatch"). They strolled to Sarah's table for a tête-à-tête that was unprecedented because it was public. The fascinated crowds then saw them steal two young women from a table of young British and U.S. diplomats and whirl happily and jovially around the dance floor...
Woolley is more than capably assisted by a cast of able youngsters, each of whom does his best to steal scenes from an incomparable scene stealer--and they come awfully close every once in a while. Roddy McDowell--the youthful Huw Morgan of "How Green Was My Valley"--and Ann Baxter give the old maestro quite a run for his money. And there's a wonderful portrayal of an unstereotyped Nazi officer to round things...
Right now the four restaurants are barely scraping along on what they are able to beg, borrow, or steal. Only getting 50 or 60 per cent of what they were using, these places have tried to restrict the sale of coffee in various ways, including stopping sale of "coffee to go" and limiting people to one cup of coffee per meal. Hazen's, formerly using 100 pounds a week, now only gets 40-odd. The late-at-night business had been hit especially hard by this shortage, the manager said...
About ten years ago, when we first moved into the old country farmhouse where we now live, the boojums had had the run of the place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...