Word: stole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week hundreds of thousands of people converged on the site for ceremonies marking the end of the 13-day mourning period. The pyre, which had been kept smoldering with ghee (clarified butter) and coconuts, was decorated with a flower-bedecked silk canopy. Kanwar's four brothers spread a stole embroidered with gold thread over the pyre. As Brahman priests chanted mantras, the stole was burned. The pyre was then extinguished with holy water from the Ganges and milk...
...members of the Lampoon stole a fencetraditionlly used as a backdrop for a photo ofYale's football captain. Substituting a janitorfor the Eli captain, the Lampy editors tood a mockversion of the picture before returning the stolenbooty...
...something had gone wrong with Rault. In 1981 he was caught embezzling money from Masonite. With the $166,000 he stole, Rault bought a larger house, built a swimming pool and took his parents on vacations to Disney World and San Francisco. "He flipped out," remembers a former associate. "He wanted the image of success, especially to impress his family...
Many observers have said that North stole theshow from the Committee during his testimony byeloquently defending his actions and arguing thatCongress had no right to interfere foreign policy...
...through the dark, scarred landscape of the DMZ but could not find a single enemy soldier. North was determined to return home with the goods. Suddenly his team spied a North Vietnamese guard across the 17th parallel, inside North Viet Nam. North did not hesitate. He and a comrade stole across the border, wounded the guard and dragged him back into South Viet Nam. Mission accomplished. Keep mum about this, the lieutenant told his troops when they got back...