Word: stole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost incidentally) blown up and carried by dancers. At least the equivalence was consistent: dancers sprawled on the floor next to balloons with the air let out, balloons ascended and dancers rose on tiptoe, balloons bobbed and floated while dancers circled and swayed. . . But after a while, the balloons stole the show, careening with the air going out like antic rockets, bumbling like a small child's blown soap bubbles, or clustered in dancers' hands like enormous molecular models. I don't recall what in particular the dancers looked like--their motions were minimal and forgettable. If the piece were...
Pearce walked to lead off the second, stole second and then came in on a Stenhouse rbi-special for Harvard's sixth run. In the third rbi's by Steve Joyce and Santos-Buch complemented a timely Dartmouth error to give the Crimson runs number seven, eight and nine...
...like after a little too much chocolate, the complexion of the game got even worse for Harvard the following inning. First baseman Mark Bingham led off with a walk and moved to third when Ravinas's pickoff throw found the first base stands. Paul Halas then walked and stole second to give the Crimson men on second and third and nobody...
...French stole land from the peasants and gave it to a small, new class of absentee landlords, some French, some wealthy Vietnamese. In addition, they slapped huge taxes on the peasants, who were already hurt by paying rent for land they had once owned. To survive, many peasants had to sell their children as servants to the wealthy...
Despite these encumbrances, however, some of the profiles do come alive. Will Barnes, for example, recalls life in an Idaho mining camp, where his mother's five husbands "slammed her around, beat her kids, stole her money, drank themselves blind and in the end either deserted her or ran down the road with my mother shooting in the doorway after them." A Party member for 30 years and an organizer in the National Maritime Union, Barnes is still suffering from the aftermath of the witch-hunting America of the 1950s...