Word: stoled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boyish-looking Robert Oppenheimer stole the show at the Joint Atomic Energy Committee's hearing. For 2½ hours, the cropped-haired scientist set forth the intricacies of atomic science, gave sure, rapid-fire answers to polite questions-and punched gaping holes in Iowa Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's foundering one-man campaign against AEC Chairman David Lilienthal...
Armie Essayan will be the starting catcher, filling in for first string receiver Cliff Crosby who was injured in the New Haven contest. Essayan is not the defensive bulwark that was Crosby and Eli base runners three times stole second base on him. Nevertheless, he atoned for this weakness at New Haven by leading the team in hitting with three for four...
...boned junior usher from Brooklyn, New York, stole the first Class Night show in Harvard history last night and turned the Eliot House courtyard into a tumult of screams and shouts, as an overflow crowd tossed off barrels of beer while watching a vaudeville program staged by the 1949 Class Day Committee...
Yale got its first run in the fourth when Fitzgerald walked, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a sharp ground single just inside third by Paul Lambert. The Elis tallied again in the sixth. Art Dowd was safe on a fielder's choice, stole second, and scored on a single to center by Goodyear...
...full of people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...