Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of emergency in the border region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya's Somalis have repeatedly asked to be annexed to Somalia. To prevent their secession and fight off the raiders, one Kenya politician has urged the government...
...Toward Communist Shores." What do the uneasy partners expect to get out of the coalition? The Christian Democrats hope that participation in the government will educate the Socialists to the responsibilities of power, produce the necessary backing for economic and social reforms that may steal political thunder from the Communists (who did alarmingly well in the last elections). For the Socialists, the lure of Cabinet portfolios offers the opportunity to shape Italy's future along Marxist lines, before enlightened capitalists make socialism and its slogans thoroughly obsolete...
Author Pogue writes with grave admiration but indicates that behind the soldier's icy reserve was a capacity for friendliness sometimes oddly revealed. Marshall liked to unbend with practical jokes, once took the trouble to steal his adjutant's watch just so he could solemnly present it back to him at a formal awards ceremony. Before marrying his second wife (his first wife had died) Marshall drove her home from a dinner but deliberately took an hour doing it. When she remarked that he must be lost, Marshall replied: Quite the contrary. If he did not know...
Apollinaire didn't steal it really. That heroic act was reserved for an Italian house painter with an inflated sense of national pride. But Apollinaire and the young Picasso did happen to be harboring some statuettes that a zany friend had stolen from the Louvre as a joke. Once, during the national furor which followed, Apollinaire and Picasso wandered the streets of Paris for an entire night, miserably toting the incriminating statuettes in a suitcase, not knowing whether to throw them or themselves into the Seine and not quite daring to do either. Eventually, Apollinaire had them returned...
...means for rooting out corruption are needed, he said, and he stressed the role of the Massachusetts Crime Commission in the fight. "The boys don't steal the way they used to; these days it takes a Certified Public Accountant just to know there's been a theft...