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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...processed through a series of New York and New England schools. Jane went to Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. ("It was ghastly-all girls, and that's unhealthy"), then on to Vassar. A sophisticated delinquent, she was one Vassar girl who never bought a bicycle, preferring to steal them instead. Unprepared for an exam, she filled her blue book with drawings and handed it in. The college refused to flunk her. gave her a makeup exam instead. After two years she went off to Paris, where she studied French and learned beaux' arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Springtime for Henry | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...qualify for a farm loan." Doris Day is a high-powered adwoman who never gets behind in her work. They both go after the same account. Doris concentrates on the client's business; Rock pays attention to his pleasure, and he gets the account. Furious, Doris vows to steal an account from Rock-the Vip account. What she doesn't know: there is no such product as Vip. Rock made it up to please a chorus girl (Edie Adams), who swore she'd make a scandal if she couldn't make TV commercials. Released by accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillow Replumped | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...game was a study in frustration. A lacklustre first half developed into a seesaw scoring battle between Borchard and Brown's All-Ivy guard, Mike Cingiser. The Crimson pushed ahead 36-34 with two minutes left. But three straight Brown baskets, the last a buzzer-beating steal by Cingiser, put the visitors four points ahead, 40-36, at halftime...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Rally Fails As Quintet Loses, 71-67 | 2/12/1962 | See Source »

These two stars are good enough to provide a lot of competition for the Crimson, and they may well be able to steal a good number of points. But Columbia's 18-man squad does not have the depth to have much of a chance in tonight's meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers to Take On Lions | 2/10/1962 | See Source »

...while there is a marvelous incoherence to it all. The slobs and the ridiculously gorgeous girls they collect (Elsa Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead-End Bambini | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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