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Word: stole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major tax package is still lurking in the hallways to come in here and be the grinch that stole Christmas," Pierce said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes State Deficit Bill | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...what lawyers call "arguing by alternative." It's like defending a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "The fender isn't dented, and if it is, my client didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender was dented before he stole...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Diversity Comes First | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

Greg Belsher, who also stole one of Scott's passes, almost had another interception earlier in the fourth quarter. But the refs whistled Columbia for illegal motion and the Crimson for holding and clipping on the same play. End result: offsetting penalties, and the down had to be played over...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Testing out the Rushing Theory | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...account for the loss of up to $100 million in taxpayers' money to private escrow agents who allegedly stole foreclosure funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Sam Speaks Up | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...Bush later in the meeting deferred to Gorbachev, whose letter asking for inclusion in future summits with the most advanced industrial economies stole the headlines in papers around the world...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Tales of a Wimp President | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

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