Word: steals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition, the life story of the Latin American dictator goes something like this: win power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...
...warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom he has done odd jobs offers a single dollar. In desperation Steely snatches a woman's purse only to wind up with $2. When he steals a bicycle, planning to sell...
...this case the screen is an asset. Co-Directors George Abbott (who did the stage musical) and Stanley Donen have lathered it with offbeat color effects and the kind of all-over-the-lot bounce that on Broadway could only be suggested. As a cinemusical, Yankees manages to steal home by a wide margin...
Goren goofed in permitting the opposition to steal a game contract. A six-club sacrifice would only cost 300 or 500 set against the minus 650 which Goren incurred...
Rockefeller Revolution. Italians said the supermarket could never succeed, and for long years the arguments sounded convincing: the housewife would never surrender the personal pleasure of bargaining down prices with the neighborhood shopkeeper, maids would not forego their leisurely gossip sessions in the marketplace, clerks and customers would steal the counters bare (as they did in a small-scale experiment with a self-service store in Milan in 1949). But after Romans stampeded the big U.S. supermarket set up under the direction of Grand Union's President Lansing P. Shield at an international food congress in Rome...