Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over...
Springfield scored twice in the second, on a double and an error, and again on a walk, a stolen base, a passed ball, and another error. A walk, two errors, and an outfield fly produced two more in the fourth. In the seventh, the winners put together a walk, two hits, and a stolen base to score two more. They added their last run in the ninth on a fielder's choice, a stolen base, an error, and an infield out. All five Crimson errors figured in the scoring...
...Life. In Los Angeles, Harry Hetzler insisted to police that it was impossible for his car to have been stolen because 1) it was parked just outside, 2) his dog was in it and would have barked, and 3) Ranch Hand Carl Thomas would have heard the noise and called him; the police patiently explained to Hetzler that 1) the car was in Yuma, Ariz., 2) the dog was still in it but sitting quietly, and 3) Ranch Hand Thomas had been arrested as the thief...
...planned his campaign over sodas at an ice-cream store. With four other kids (none of them Fort Hamilton students), he set out in a stolen car that was loaded with rifles and ammunition he had stolen earlier from a Coney Island shooting gallery. Everything went according to plan. A little after 9 one boy, disguising his voice to sound like a girl's, had phoned Teacher Jokiel. A few minutes later the others drove past the Jokiel house. "Shoot!" Anthony ordered them. "Show you're not chickens." When the shooting was over, the boys abandoned the stolen...
...ground single to center followed by a stolen base, a sacrifice, and a bunt single on the squeeze play. Meears went all the way, fanning six and issuing only two walks. Harvard threatened in the sixth, when Vin Morton doubled and went to third on an infield out, but was thrown out at the plate trying to score...