Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since that time, bicycle theft rates have dropped substantially. In the first quarter of this year, 44 per cent fewer bikes were stolen than in the same quarter of last year, and the theft rate at Grays has been cut in half...
...police have been recovering more stolen bicycles--about 100 last year--but since most have not been registered or reported stolen, Fennelly said, they are usually auctioned off by Phillips Brooks House...
Munson learned that lesson late in his catching career--last week, to be precise. Thurman will need a lot of practice before this afternoon's contest if he wants to contain some of the Red's runners. As of September 21, Joe Morgan had 58 stolen bases, Griffey had 33 and Concepcion had 20. Dan Driessen, a substitute infielder, has swiped 14 bases in 15 attempts...
...being a novelist in his spare time. He has more of that commodity than he can handle, however, so when his attorney finds him an odd job, St. Ives snaps it up. An old richie up in Holmby Hills named Abner Procane (John Houseman) has had some journals stolen. St. Ives is commissioned as middleman in the trade-off of big bucks for large books, whose precise contents remain a mystery. As the caper proceeds, however, it becomes increasingly clear that whatever is in the books is highly inflammatory, not to say down right dangerous. St. Ives cannot help noticing...
Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the fact that she produces feverishly romantic gothic novels and her pre-diet-pill memories of a miserably obese childhood. Both are telltale signs of a temperament too florid to suit the doctrinaire, modernist tastes of the men now in her life. One day, seized by a fit of automatic writing...