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Word: stole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students didn't notice the feet until a half-hour after they returned, but when they did, they left the room and locked the door behind them. By the time help had arrived at the room, the man had exited via a window. He stole nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest who had recently said a funeral Mass for a Tabar boy killed by the army. The robbers stole $3,000 from the church near Port-au-Prince and shot the priest twice. He survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti A Rumbling in the Belly of the Beast | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...inadequate financing and poor leadership, the U.S. Government "brazenly" conspired to steal credit for discovering the AIDS virus from researchers at France's Pasteur Institute. He dismisses as a myth the competing claim of Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute and, quoting U.S. researchers, strongly implies that Gallo stole the French strain and presented it as his own, a charge Gallo denies. Shilts labels as a "pleasant fiction" a 1987 U.S.-French political accord that settled lawsuits and deemed Gallo and France's Dr. Luc Montagnier "co-discoverers" of the virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Appalling Saga of Patient Zero | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...would have been left without a cast," the director says, defending his action. However, the director that he stole the actor away from happened to be Erik J. Salovaara '88, the head of Common Casting. Thus, Salovaara learned of the practice and has now gone on a rampage to prevent any ambiguity about the rule...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Cast Thy Rules Upon Rocks | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...course, in discussion of a proposedlaboratory animal ordinance, the universities areportrayed as prime offenders, and Vellucci,whenever possible, recalls the days when dog-andcat-nappers stole the city's pets and sold them toHarvard for the dubious benefit of research...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Campaign Rhetoric Bashes Universities | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

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