Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, it was the cheap ($700 f.o.b. France), amazingly efficient new Citroën that stole the Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles...
...last minute of play and scored on a blocked punt. Goldcoaster Roger Davis ran for the first touchdown from the Dudley 2 in the first period, but the Commuters came back with a 35-yard throw to Sam Samoiloff in the second. Down 7 to 6, they stole the wind from the already gloating Adams eleven, blocking a punt into the end zone and out of bounds for a fluke Dudley score...
Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...
Horace started poor, but from the beginning he knew how to climb to wealth and power over the necks of women. Back in Cambridge, Mass., some 30 years in the past, he stole Vic's girl (Diana Lynn) and got his start in her father's business. He jilted her when he met rich, well-connected Martha Vickers, and began to make his way as a financier. Thus established, he cut Martha adrift and set out to break the trickiest operator on the Street (Sydney Greenstreet), using, as his ally, Sydney's bored wife (Lucille Bremer). Then...
Ferdinand got the support of Russia's Nicholas II, after Stambolov had been conveniently hacked to death by an assassin. He promoted himself from prince to czar, later sealed his own regal fate by choosing Wilhelm's side in World War I. In 1918 he stole out of Sofia, leaving his throne to his son Boris...