Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hermes." Olkhovatka is a remote rural region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Its Hermes is one Comrade Vakhlin, the "unrelenting" prosecutor of a local committee engaged in snooping into irregularities on collective farms. He was nicknamed for the mythological Hermes, who, according to the Soviet press, once stole a sheep, saying to the owner as he made off: "Don't do as I do, do as I tell...
Prosecutor Vakhlin, according to the same source, stole a collective cow from the Red Partisan Collective Farm. He had it processed into bologna, and invited the members of his committee to eat it with him. In due time, the committee decided that the time had come for the prosecutor himself to be prosecuted. Charge: he had not only stolen the cow, but pocketed the proceeds...
...Okanogan, Wash., a minister of the Gospel was charged with grand larceny. The rub: one Sunday in November, he stole a private plane to fly to services in Spokane...
...born Claude William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that he had had tuberculosis), but he never went home. At 15 he was forcing himself to practice juggling 16 hours...
...career, as Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture, he gambled $11,000 of state funds in the Chicago livestock market. He wanted to prove that Georgia's peanut-fed hogs were as good as the Midwest's corn-fed animals. He failed. But he bayed: "Sure I stole the money, but I stole it for you," and as a result was elected governor...