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Word: stolen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wallets, cash, and watches were stolen when the locker rooms for field hockey and football were ransacked. Some empty wallets were found in the lavatories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Investigate $100 Theft From Locker Room in Dillon | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

Steven Kaseta '78, captain of the football team, said yesterday the thieves had stolen "at least $100, probably more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Investigate $100 Theft From Locker Room in Dillon | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

...instruct officers in such elementary matters as interviewing witnesses, verifying the accuracy of their information and advising them on what is expected of a witness in court. The report praises imaginative crime-control tactics like Washington's Operation Sting, in which phony fences were set up to receive stolen goods while officials secretly photographed and recorded the transactions to provide airtight evidence. Such operations, now being carried on in several cities, apparently work quite well. When Washington police took the trouble to produce tangible evidence and reliable witnesses, convictions in robbery arrests went up 60%, in other violent crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Pinch Must Really Sting | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...afterward and destroy them in a paper shredder. "I don't trust anybody," he yells. "I've seen it happen too many times. The best goddamned thing in your movie shows up in a goddamned TV show six months before the movie is out. I don't want anything stolen." He yells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Death and La - De - Dah | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Having stolen all the media's attention away from Velma who also used Flynn's tactics, Roxie marches brazenly to court, assured that her celebrity status will not only insure acquittal, but that she will be able to plaster her own name across the country in big, bright neon vaudeville marquee in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flim-Flam in 'Chicago' | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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