Word: steals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team rented some untrained local horses and attempted to play on them. Faced with the prospect of dodging swinging mallets and each other, the rented ponies panicked. One or two survived several practices before actively resisting, but an alternative had to be found. "Beg, borrow, or steal," said President Hibberd V. B. Kline III '69, an aristocrat in the old tradition...
...PROBLEM with this production of The Fantasticks is the lead. Lang des Jardins, who plays both the narrator and El Gallo, the cowboy-rapist who tries to steal away Louisa's heart, is bad. He has a wonderful John Raitt "MOOOAHHHH" voice, but he moves in an obscene, unctuous way across the stage...
...blunt, drawling litany, he recited his reasons for calling it quits: "I can't hit when I need to. I can't steal when I want to. I can't score from second when I have to. It was time to quit trying...
Virtually all graduate student spoke with distaste of the atmosphere of competition that pervades the Graduate School. Some students, we were repeatedly told, would not discuss substantive or methodological questions of interest with their friends for fear that their friends might steal their ideas. Members of the faculty can do a good deal to ease this situation by providing reassurances to individual students...
...thieves also searched other offices in the building. According to Roderick, they tried to steal a piggy bank in an upstairs office, but, finding only 30 cents inside, left it up-turned...