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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course. It develops that her husband owns "the biggest pâté factory in Strasbourg," and the wife lives high on the goose. More luck, and Felix manipulates it skillfully. The lady tears the uniform off him one evening, flings him into bed. Later she forces him to steal the rest of her jewels while she cries: "Oh, how delightfully you debase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Chairman Dr. Jerrold R. Zacharias hopes to have trained an army of 10,000 teachers able to bring modern physics to 600,000 pupils a year. The prospect is enough to make Dr. Zacharias chuckle: "I think the program should be classified. If the Russians find out, they will steal it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The New Physics Class | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Slicky Boy | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...Amadou Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France on a basis of equality and confidence-a program that should steal thunder from the supporters of Moscow and Cairo. Ahidjo also is expected to try to lure the rebels out of the jungle with the promise that they will suffer no punishment if they surrender-the kind of offer M'bida had refused to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH CAMEROONS: Fallen Idol | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...Certainly a lot of moviegoers will not be able to. Evelyn Rudie is the most fetching representation of daddy's darling that Hollywood has come up with since Margaret O'Brien retired undefeated as hopscotch champion of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and does she ever know how to steal a scene! In fact, she steals the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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