Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From a men's room tucked into the corner of a scabrous press bullpen in a criminal-courts building, out walk a trollop and a policeman adjusting his clothes after what has obviously been a brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life is cheap. When a murderer escapes from the court building's death row, guards...
...they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst...
Option B: Turn the thermostats in each guilty student's room to extra low, and steal their New York Times every morning...
...thief did not take a Walkman, stereo and computer also in the room. Ancker said she thinks the thief may have seen her playing her flute and broken into the room expressly to steal...
These would-be plunderers attempted to steal only one oversized pumpkin, but their efforts were fruitless. Dining hall sleuths tracked the piefilling pilferers, who were apprehended by Swarthmore security...