Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main prize, of course, is still oil, and the gas strikes have convinced Australian oilmen that it is there, since oil is often found in the ground beneath gas pockets. The only sour note comes from Australia's coal industry, which is afraid that oil and gas would steal its market for generating power. Plentiful petroleum, warns Australian Coal Association Chairman Sir Edward E. Warren, could "destroy the indigenous coal industry on which whole communities depend." The complaint puts some politicians in the unusual position of refereeing a fight between coal and oil before an oil industry even exists...
...matter, either. The entire Jumbo infield is back, led by the first baseman Vandy French, a former Little League teammate of Del Rossi who looks like he still might to be in the little leagues (5 ft., 7 in., 148 pounds). All French did last year was hit .368, steal 20 bases, and pitch relief...
...Cybele a shaman and guru, and obediently follows her in a ritual play-therapy. Through her he will be freed from his amnesia and vertigo--"You will be my healer," he pleads early in their friendship. And, indeed, the dizziness disappears when at last he climbs a steeple to steal the weather-cock she has so long cherished...
...Clay Committee last spring and reduced his own earlier request by $400 million he was met not with Congressional approval but with an additional $1.5 billion in cuts. Slashing the foreign aid budget had become a useful game, and Congress was not going to allow the the President to steal all its best plays. The same thing will no doubt happen this year...
...convinced that the youth of the country want me to take the position." President Johnson, also nominated by acclamation, leaves the choice of a running mate up to the convention, and says he is "pleased as punch" at the selection of Governor George Wallace, who, he thinks, "will sure steal the thunder from those two Republicans...