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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to steal the Bible is expected to spur work on new security measures which had already been under consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Slips as He Tries to Remove Gutenberg Bible From Widener Library | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...when circulation wars raged and when a condemned man was not simply hanged but, as one daily bannered, JERKED TO JESUS. Armed with phony search warrants, police badges and wiretapping devices, reporters got the story one way or the other-usually the other. They climbed through windows to steal the diaries of murdered mistresses, kidnaped suspects to get exclusive interviews, and planted clues to sustain a sordid rape story for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Front Page Revisited | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...months before Luna 15 was launched, rumors had circulated in Moscow that Soviet scientists would in one way or another try to steal some thunder from Apollo. Speculation intensified last month when Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov told Japanese newsmen that he expected his country to exhibit rocks from the moon-gathered by an unmanned spacecraft-at the 1970 world's fair in Osaka. Three weeks ago, reports were heard in Moscow that two earlier versions of Luna 15 had exploded prematurely-one on the launch pad early in April, the other shortly after launch on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: SCOOPY, SNOOPY OR SOUR GRAPES? | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Athletics have always been all-important to Aldrin. Recollects Albert Hartman, the boy's primary-school principal: "He was willing to take risks, but when he took one you had a pretty good feeling he knew what he was doing. When he decided to steal in baseball, his judgment was usually on the winning side." As center on the Montclair High School football team, he compensated for his smallness (5 ft. 10 in., 165 lbs.) with ferocity, and helped lead the team to its first league championship in 15 years. Those who played with him recall Aldrin's strong team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: THE CREW: MEN APART | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...banquet, they do not recognize their failure to return the system to its continuous state; that's the why they see the world itself--in pieces. Therefore they can have no world view, no morality, no fixed or whole perceptual reference (prerequisite to both philosophy and morality). They steal, they lie, they consume, because they can perceive no reason not to. No morality, "no objection...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: Daisies | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

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