Word: stole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Weather Bureau approved a proposed bombing, logistics were carefully plotted. Undercover agents studied the target. Other members bought dynamite at rural stores or stole explosives from construction sites. Couriers contacted sympathizers to ready safe houses in case flight became necessary. Grathwohl helped plan the bombing of the Detroit Police Officers Association headquarters in February 1970; at the last minute Ayers called off the attack...
...Everyone in Boston these days wants to talk about Lynn, Rice, Doyle, Wise, even Yaz. Nobody wants to hear about Messersmith, Sutton, Cey, Garvey, even Marshall. Nobody cares that last year Davey Lopes hit three homes runs in one game against the Cubs, or that latter that week he stole five bases in one game--a game you saw, in person. Or that Dodger left fielder Bill Buckner went Supermanning through the air in another game last year, another game your saw at Dodger Stadium, to rob a Montreal better of a sure triple. Montreal manager Gene Mauch called Buckner...
...odds with visible urban needs--like "benign' neglect"--lead us to believe that our nation's policy makers are simply too lazy to walk a few blocks beyond their Washington office buildings. But more likely, at least in the case of the Nixon administration, the policy-makers probably stole a glance down the street and then opened up their copies of Edward C. Banfield's Unheavenly City to understand what they...
...four behind Team Leader Jackson, who says, "Claudell is just the best young ballplayer I've ever seen come into the league." The owner of the A's, Charlie Finley, is quick to agree. During a game in Chicago, after Washington singled to drive in a run, stole second and scored on a wild pitch, Finley walked into the press box to announce he was giving Washington a $10,000 raise...
...Wives. When Jean-Loup Dabadie, one of France's leading screenwriters (Cesar and Rosalie) saw her in 1973, he wrote a comedy of the generation gap, La Gifle (A Slap in the Face) for her. When it opened last fall in Paris, Isabelle as a teen-age scamp stole the show from Co-Stars Annie Girardot and Lino Ventura...