Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night the lid blew off. As Harry Truman slept five blocks away in his Hotel Muehlebach suite, thieves entered the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...
...spite of his efforts to stay out of the limelight, shy Dmitri Shostakovich stole the show. One of the festival's big events was his Eighth Symphony, conducted by friend Eugene Mravinsky (to whom the Eighth is dedicated), conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. When the Czech radio recently played the Eighth, the score was altered because it was considered too difficult to play; this time Mravinsky brought along his own score...
...Sounds that are too high-pitched for the human ear to hear. They were once called "supersonic," but airmen, trying to fly faster than sound, stole the name...
Saul Mariaschin's boot of a double-play grounder in the third, along with two Dartmouth hits and a wild pitch by Jack Wallace, brought the visitors within a run of the Varsity in the third. In the sixth, Coppinger singled, stole second, and rode home on Wallace's double to give the home team a two-run lead. But Dartmouth struck back, aided by a long argument, an error by Coppinger, and a wind-blown pop fly which fell for a hit to tie the score...
...also opened the scoring in the third inning, Larry Falloni doubled along the right-field foul line, stole third base, and tallied on Espanet's fly to Walt Coulson. The Varsity, which had all kinds of trouble with Snow's slow, left-handed offerings, tied the count in the seventh on singles by Bill Barron, Bill Hamlen, and Lenny Lunder, the last named a pinch hitter for John Coppinger...