Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five decades have done little to change other student groups. According to Sheeline, while the Lampoon was "doing its usual crazy things." The Crimson stealthily crept to the top of the Castle in 1942 to steal the Ibis "a difficult feat done brilliantly by The [Crimson] staff." And The Crimson beat the Poonsters softball squad by the unbelievable score of 23-2. Mirth-seeking students read the Lemon, an alternative humor magazine, while Lampoon staffers licked their wounds...
...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
...allegedly tried to steal a motorboat from Weld Boat House were stopped early yesterday morning by Harvard police officers after a chase along the Charles River...
...three unearned runs were all courtesy of an unusual catcher's interference call on BU's Taj Tedrow. With Harvard ahead 3-0, sophomores James Crowley and Bo Bernhard attempted a double steal. Senior Phil Andriola swung at the pitch, but Tedrow panicked at the sight of the men stealing and got in the way of Andriola's bat. Harvard Head Coach Leigh Hogan complained to the umpires after they failed to take any action and succeeded in getting the interference call...
...seems to be rising to the bait. "Those are the kind of guys," says one CAA executive of his ICM counterparts, "who steal scripts from one another's desks." The Ovitzites say Berg is ranting and raving to make himself seem like Mike's equal -- an idea they find absolutely absurd. "I will not be intimidated by the threat of failure," says Ovitz, with uncharacteristic heat, "or coerced by that kind of talk. I will do what I have...