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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still life imprisonment. But the maximum penalty for forcing a child to live in a brothel is six months, and having sexual intercourse with a child or maiming a person by reckless driving can bring only two years. In spite of gradual reforms, it is still worse to steal a dog (18 months) than to attack a neighbor (one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: English Justice | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...opportune moment to throw things--a sympathy snowball riot for Yale--was passed up with a collective condescending smile. The Student Council was well-behaved and even productive, while the Lampoon--minus Fool's Week--turned its energies to physical endeavor with the CRIMSON. No one even tried to steal the Ibis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace, Progress, Prosperity | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...fifth, the Crimson got Johnson an insurance run. Bob Forbush walked and, like Boulris the inning before, managed to steal second. After Mouse Kasarjian flied out harmlessly Forbush was able to take third as Johnson rolled to the first baseman. George Harrington then brought the runner home with a timely single to right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Beats M.I.T., 3-0, For Fourth Consecutive Victory | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...among us. They can be read, or rather looked through, in about a half hour apiece, and this is pretty quick considering that Passionella retails for $1.75 in paperback. But there is not much else to do except to plunk down even these enormous sums, unless you can borrow, steal, or arrange to be given the books, because Mr. Feiffer is a deft, knowledgeable and brilliantly witty cartoonist, satirist, and "observer," as they say, "of the contemporary scene...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Passionella and Other Stories | 4/30/1959 | See Source »

...both the second and third innings off starter Cook, who was having trouble keeping his curve from hanging but deserved to be unscored on in each frame. In the second, Tom Johnson walked, moved along on a sacrifice and wild pitch, then beat Cook's pitch with a dramatic steal of home. A throwing error by third baseman Mo Balboni followed, opening the door for two more runs on a single and double...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Springfield Nine Trounces Varsity; Weak Defense Allows 12-2 Victory | 4/22/1959 | See Source »

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