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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Industry, and the onetime head of the Hungarian manufacturers' association. Tied to this "Horthy plot" was a group of Roman Catholic priests, also rounded up. Among them was Father Egon Albert Turcsanyi, onetime secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is accused of leading an armed group to steal documents from the State Church Office on the orders of Cardinal Mindszenty (now in refuge in the U.S. Legation in Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Step Inside, Gentlemen | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from the U.S. and 17 foreign lands, charged trickery on the high seas. Huffed a Jamestown publicist: "It's just as though you started playing a piano and someone else set up a jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Pilgrims' Progress | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...over, Night is drawing nigh. Shadows of the evening Steal across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Squarson | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Harvard scored first, as Dick Fisher singled in the second, advanced on an incompetent pick-off attempt and a fielder's choice, and came home on a double steal as Matt Botsford took second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jeffs Defeat Nine, 4-1; Crimson Then Edges Williams, 7-5 | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...C.D.T. on Memorial Day, and handsome Sam Hanks was right where he wanted to be: in front of the pack. Now, for the first time, he began to worry. A veteran of eleven unsuccessful attempts at the "big spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would last till the finish. He was less than a lap ahead of the second racer. Should he crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweet & Low | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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