Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, all the old rancorous controversies of the Watergate era came back to life. High crimes and misdemeanors were charged and denied. Reporters scrambled for inside tips, and there were rumors of stolen documents, violated contracts and million-dollar damages...
...Manhattan subway car by a fat, bald, 35-year-old greeting card writer with thick glasses, a perspiring brow, a poster of Cheryl Tiegs on his closet door and a conscience burdened by the same aboriginal sins Alexander Portnoy complained about. In other words, the Grinch may have stolen Christmas, but somebody is trying to pervert Valentine...
When Shakespeare called England "this royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle," he was merely stating the facts. For more than 900 years British monarchs have bought, begged, borrowed and stolen enough treasure to sink the island: castles, palaces, crowns and jewels, fabulous bric-a-brac, artistic masterpieces beyond prodigality...
...schools profiled since the early '70s. Nonetheless, the report notes that 25% of American schools, about 20,500, suffer from moderately serious to serious problems of vandalism, personal attack and thievery. In 1978, it estimates, one out of every nine secondary school students will have something stolen in a typical month. One out of 80 will be attacked during the same period. Among the nation's 1 million secondary school teachers, 5,200 will be attacked-one-fifth of them seriously -in any given month, while about 6,000 will be robbed. Vandalism, meanwhile, will cost schools...
...months, but could do so earlier if Labor takes a strong lead?as it might if Healey's minibudget proves popular. The London Times editorialized that the budget seemed designed "to keep the political initiative rather than for any purpose of managing the economy." Tories, bitter because Labor had stolen their policy of aid to small businesses, described Healey's package as "a budget of repentance ... an electioneering budget...