Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garrison, one-time Crimson skater and later Chase's assistant coach for the Varsity, who fired the shot heard round the rinks. When his A.H.A. sextet broke camp before Christmas, he stole Brundage's thunder and let his skaters know that they were to make up the American Olympic team. Brundage, his presidential pride raging, revoked his previous backing of the A.H.A., and used his prerogative to back the A.A.U. The initial skirmish of the Olympic civil...
Hauptfuhrer was responsible for creating the tie immediately before his brilliant clinching shot. With Princeton ahead by two points, and the four-sided Gardon clock fast running out of minutes. Chip Gannon stole the ball in Crimson territory and moved down under the Tiger basket, where three of four assorted men batted, it futilely against the backboard before George tapped...
...Yardlings 7 to 6 win, Bob DiBlasio stole the spotlight, banging in a total of four goals, three of which came in the last period. Jack Carman, traditional high scorer, was held to one tally as he began his final week with the freshman before joining the Varsity...
When the going got too tough, the Secretary stole away for a game of croquet. He liked occasionally to putt around a golf green but croquet was his favorite relaxation. "[It] may seem namby-pamby but it is really a very scientific game," he wrote. He became very expert and once beat the champion "of a certain section of the United States." But in his last years at State, he had to give up the game. "My doctor required me to taper off, which probably proves that it is more strenuous than most people think...
...Berlin, the year's best art exhibition had been the work of a Vienna-born American named Henry Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...