Word: stole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't know shit, none of them do, they're all kids. Like me when I first went in: Judge said two years the hard way or three the easy way. What the hell? I was a hard case. When I was fourteen, five of us stole a big power boat and went out to sea for three days. I was along for the ride--didn't know shit about the boat, I mean, though it was my idea to steal it. Anyway, we came back into the harbor and went right by this police boat. He kept right...
...action started on the tennis court, where Cincinnati Reds Leftfielder Pete Rose stole the show if not the prize. He overcame his lack of experience -only four months on the court-to beat Austrian Skier Karl Schranz. "This game's like badminton," Rose declared happily after taking one game from Schranz by diving across the court to make an impossible forehand return...
...pitifully meager. Voight Kempson, the director, does a lot to compensate for this absence, by a lavish and effective use of mannerisms. The pit band seems more competent, though they tend to drown out some of the weaker voices onstage. The music Jonathan Scheffer and Barry Cohen dreamed up (stole?) for this show is the usual pastiche of everything from Motown to madrigal, with Harry Belafonte thrown in as some sort of transition...
...Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.), a member of the Senate Watergate Committee, said he stood by an earlier statement: "The significance is not in the acts of men breaking, entering and bugging the Watergate, but in the acts of men who almost stole America...
Some usually unheralded performers stole the show from the headliners as Harvard outdistanced Princeton and Yale in a triangular meet at the Tiger's Jadwin Gym, Saturday...