Word: stole
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...Philistines forged a formidable reputation as warriors because they possessed a monopoly on iron smelting, and perhaps they even made steel. With advanced swords and shields, they fought the neighboring Israelite tribes, mortally wounded King Saul and stole the Holy Ark of the Covenant. In the face of the Philistines' military threat, the powerful kingdoms of Israel and Judah united against them. Defeated first by David and then by the Egyptians in an alliance with Solomon, the Philistines went into decline in the 10th century...
Since Marcos was ousted in 1986, Aquino's government has tried to recover the $10 billion that it claims Marcos stole from the country. From his Hawaiian exile, Marcos acknowledged that he tried to strike a deal; but of the $5 billion overture, he snapped, "That is a lie." Said Aquino's press secretary, Teodoro Benigno: "One of the world's greatest illusionists is at work...
Rabassa downplays his role of spreading the good words of Latin American writing. "The credit belongs to the writers, particularly Jorge Luis Borges and Garcia Marquez, who rediscovered Don Quixote. My theory is that Cervantes was the first magical realist. But then the British stole both the Spanish colonies and the Spanish novel. After that, a lot of Latin American literature merely aped European models. But life and the landscape in South America were always more vivid than conventional fiction could convey. Once writers began breaking the rules, their subjects came alive...
...eight," Rooney calls the tune, signaling for combinations. "Feint, two-one. Pick it up, six-one. There you go, seven-one. Now make it a six." The savage sight of Tyson advancing on his sparring partners recalls the classic moan of an early matchmaker: "He fights you like you stole something from him." Uppercuts are especially urgent. "If you move away too much," says Oliver McCall, the best gym fighter of the nine revolving lawn sprinklers, "he'll punch your hipbone and paralyze you in place." Hurricane comes out of the ring still spinning...
Brita Lind started the rally off with a single the skipped off third base. After Lind advanced to second on a passed ball, Co-Capatin Mary Baldauf singled and stole second. With runners on second and third, catcher Nancy Prior singled in both runners to tie the score...