Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this swirling about of words and self-consciousness of diction is not backed by vital dialogue and stirring speech. Quotes from the Bible, Lincoln and Shakespeare steal the show through the force of clean language. All Kirstein leaves us is the vague impression that there is something semantic...
...tanks were lost in the fighting, most of them knocked out by Israeli jets. Official casualty figures list more than 6,000 soldiers killed or missing-but there is evidence that perhaps 5,000 of them are hiding out on the west bank, waiting for a chance to steal across the river and return to Amman. Despite his pleas for military aid from the West, Hussein says that he has got no specific commitments from either the U.S. or Britain. Hussein is far from happy with the way the war was fought. "There was not enough coordination, not enough planning...
...work; a coach guards the scales and prescribes for excess lard. Stanky maneuvers ballplayers as if they were robots and he owned the patents: he has been known to use as many as three pinch hitters for one turn at bat. In his "gogo" offense, even pitchers steal bases, and a batter who reaches first base is considered to be in scoring position. Against Baltimore last week, Chicago Leftfielder Jimmy Stewart scored from first on a single to leftfield-because the Orioles never imagined he would...
...Smothers' success is that in August they will take their nightclub act to Las Vegas for the superstar fee of $35,000 a week. As Jack Paar once told them, "I don't know what it is you do, but nobody's going to steal it." The producers of Bonanza are at least going to try. This fall they are going to introduce a new youthful character into the show in an attempt to counteract the "freshness and vitality" of the brothers Smothers...
...bought secondhand from salvage companies that deal in equipment discarded by legitimate manufacturers. Small print shops will run off a few thousand imitation labels, with no questions asked. The counterfeiters hire chemists, some of whom are moonlighting while holding jobs with ethical manufacturers. They bribe technicians to steal punches and dies, and raw materials from the big companies. Much of their manufacturing is done at night in small plants that do an apparently respectable business...