Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the first meeting around the brand-new green baize (the old cloth had been stolen by a souvenir hunter after last year's peace conference), Molotov sat and listened to Bevin and Bidault. They wanted to establish international commissions to Marshall-plan European recovery on a continental basis. Then, with instructions from the Kremlin, Molotov spoke...
Choice Choices. In fact, readers could take their pick of a dozen theories: the murder involved a fight over stolen jewelry; it was gang war for control of a news service to bookies; it was tied up with a West Coast shipping strike; it was war over distribution of a certain brand of Scotch whiskey; it was "The Syndicate," roiled over Bugsy's losses as manager of its $6,000,000 Flamingo Club at Las Vegas. To some confused readers it seemed that there must have been a lot of people standing outside the rose-trellised window that night...
Arrested the following day at the corner of Bay and Franklin Streets while attempting to sell the stolen timepiece, Farrell tossed it down a sewer when approached by police officers. Efforts at recovery have proved fruitless...
While the Crimson was unable to do anything effective at the plate, Yale put together a stolen base, an infield error, two singles, a double, and some hard base-running for single tallies in the second and third...
...assembled regularly in barren places under the direction of a "Grand Master," who was usually masked and garbed in animal skins and satanic horns. When the gang had reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke up the meeting...