Word: steals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, in the stone-paved Quincy Street courtyard facing the Varsity Club, the students of the oldest and most blase of America's universities will gather to steal a Big Green leaf out of Dartmouth's book by staging a mass rally in an effort to hoist the team from Hanover on its own enthusiastic petard...
...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
...Europe. He would get 78% of Russia's cultivated land (260,000,000 acres), a somewhat higher percentage of Russian livestock. But Russia has seldom been much more than self-sufficient as to food. War damage would make export surpluses highly un likely. Hitler could scarcely afford to steal important quantities of food from the peasants responsible for succeeding crops. As a long-term investment, handled with German efficiency, Russia's "great granaries" might prove a mighty asset, but the immediate profit would undoubtedly be quite small...
Away went the chandeliers, pianos and knickknacks to dealers; a church bought the built-in organ. Bidding for the house and grounds started at $5,000, went to $16,000. Roared the auctioneer: "The U.S.O. and the Navy are seriously considering this estate. You are looking at a steal, ladies and gentlemen!" Before he could finish his going-going-gone, a little lady named Anita Niesen cried: "Twenty-one thousand!'' A group of auctioneers rushed her into another room, slammed the door. Said Mrs. Niesen: she was buying the house as a birthday present for her daughter, Singer...
...took General Electric six months, many a hot sales talk, to cut refrigerator payment periods from 36 to 30 months. If the big installment lenders (like Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, General Motors Acceptance Corp.) get too strict, thousands of banks and small credit men stand ready to steal their business with more liberal terms...