Word: steals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strain. Hoping to steal a march on the rest of the U.S. airline industry, Capital flew bravely into the jet-age dawn by buying 60 British Viscount turboprops three years ago, agreed to pay $67.5 million within five years of delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit...
...ordinary citizen has long since silenced his talk of freedom, placidly accepted the status quo. Whispers a worker: "We get along on $40 a month, plus C.U.-the initials of co ukradnete (what you can steal). This cheating, chiefly from government warehouses or government stores, and what the regime calls hooliganism" are the only emotional outlets. Teen-agers annoy old ladies in movies, wind up hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll sessions by jeering at, sometimes battling, cops in the street. The stirrings of intellectuals and the riots of youths have flowered into rebellion in Hungary and a fight...
Mother's Little Helper. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Lillian Dennis, mother of six, explained to police that she taught her ten-year-old son to steal money for everyday needs because if she did it herself, she might end up in jail and there would be no one to look after the children...
Occupational Therapy. In South Shields, England, after a juvenile court sent a 16-year-old petty thief to a psychiatrist in the hope of finding out what made him steal, the doctor reported that the boy had swiped $2.80 during the consultations...
...Wild Time racing around to parties and bars and out to the West Coast. Cutting back and forth across the country for 308 pages, they meet at least a couple of hundred other real gone characters. Sometimes the boys work a little, or sleep with some cute chick, or steal cars, or get married, or hitch-hike, or get divorced; almost nightly they get drunk and/or take dope. Dean sets the pace, stealing five cars one night and sleeping with three girls another; understandably nobody can keep up, though most try hard enough...