Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmag was TIME; the item was stolen from a confidential cable to its editors which relayed the London rumor (which TIME did not print) and concluded: "We have no reason to believe it is true...
...holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
...story surrounds the Senator's intimate diary, which has been stolen and is likely to involve the politicians in a mess of trouble if the wrong people get hold of it. There is much too much standard B-picture intrigue about the diary, and it is hard to work up a healthy interest in either the story or the Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field...
Correctional Institution. In Columbus, Miss., Convict Frank Gardner stayed on as chef after his term was up, stayed on as a prisoner after he was caught cooking stolen chickens...
...police found $8,000, plus two manila envelopes containing additional information about the robbery gang. Police declined to elucidate further about the envelopes' contents, but did say that they planned to check the serial numbers of the bills discovered against the numbers of the bills stolen from the Coop...