Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobody likes pennies," Kellerman says. "Nobody's going to steal 3,000 pennies...
Brown is continually threatening to steal the show. As sleek as the Maenad dancers, as articulate as Gullette, she walks and speaks as one in control of Pandemonium...
...asking price was too good to turn down ? the F-15, the U.S. equivalent of the MIG-29C, goes for around $50 million per plane. ?It really was a steal,? says Thompson. ?I think they?d have bought the MIGs at that price even if Iran hadn?t been interested. They want to see how the engines work, the electronic boxes, the missiles and other subcomponents. I don?t believe they?re even necessarily going to be flown.? Coming in a couple of years: one heck of a garage sale...
...criminal talent. For some three decades Donald E. Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst...
...trot, winning three Edgar Awards and occasionally lurching cheerfully off track with an unclassifiable detour, like Kahawa, which he claims is Swahili for "We couldn't think of a title." It's a caper tale, set in 1982, darker than Dortmunder, lighter than Parker, about some likable bandits who steal a trainload of coffee from Idi Amin, in Uganda...