Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with unhurried majesty. But for how long? In Elephants (Abrams; 255 pages; $50) Photographer Reinhard Künkel notes that during the 1970s a tenfold increase in the price of ivory, from $6 to $60 a kilogram, meant the death sentence for thousands of Africa's pachyderms. Hunters steal into national parks at night and, using automatic weapons, snares and poisoned arrows, kill dozens of animals at a time. The elephants' tusks are cut off and the huge corpses left to rot. During 1976 alone, writes Künkel, the ivory from 23,360 Kenyan elephants was sold...
...despite a strong comeback effort in the last minutes of play, the Crimson couldn't or wouldn't pull off the win. With 1:07 remaining and the score 70-63, Coach Kathy Delaney Smith called a time-out. The hoopsters then dove for every possible steal, and drove the lane in search of three-point plays. But once at the foul line Harvard only hit two of six attempts...
...after being indicted by federal grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., for a variety of crimes that took place between 1977 and 1980. Tickel pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, including income tax evasion, theft, breaking into the credit union at FBI headquarters with intent to steal, and selling $37,000 worth of hot jewelry...
...shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care of the beer. His thick, curly white hair is short, his face is pink and lightly lined, his eyes are shut. He is driving the race in his head, plotting how to steal tenths of a second from a Triumph TR8 driven by a rival named Ken Slagle...
Appropriately the two senior aquamen playing their final contest in their Crimson Speedos provided the final margin of victory Co-Captain Rich Guerra and Rick Kirk each accounted for two goals and a steal...