Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final two frames, Luongo made like his predecessor, allowing neither hits nor runs. The Eagles, meanwhile, scored once more--via two singles sandwiched around a stolen base--off Petkunas in the seventh, to make the final...
...common, and there were some spectacular bank robberies. The Civil War produced great riches for some but, until the perfection of the Yale lock in 1865, there was no effective way of protecting such wealth. In 1864 alone, the Boston police reported that nearly a million dollars had been stolen. Professional detectives emerged who would attempt to recover the loot in exchange for a fee, usually about 10% of the proceeds...
...choose between the "Creator or the creature. God or god. The Name of Names or Apollo." She chooses the Greek divinity and instantly becomes a font of Western literature. "Stories came from me then . . . none of them of my own making, all of them acquired, borrowed, given, taken, inherited, stolen, plagiarized, usurped, chronicles and sagas in vented at the beginning of the world by the offspring of giants copulating with the daughters of men." She becomes, in short, a splendid ventriloquist, and the beauty of her adopted speech almost makes her forget that the words belong to strangers...
This is what Hills means by scruples: Suppose your brand-new electric portable typewriter is stolen from the back seat of your locked car, and the thief was deft enough to get the door open without breaking the window. (He did it with a bent wire coat-hanger--easy as pie). You have plenty of insurance, but the company won't pay without physical proof that you didn't leave the car unlocked. A broken window would do, for example. Now, you've been paying premiums for twenty years, and they owe you the money fair and square...
Stifled Wife. Lear's casting is always impeccable, but what makes the shows run-and run and run-is close-to-the-bone conflict that is stolen shamelessly from his own life. "I've always used material right out of my own life," he boasts. "Nowadays, if we're stuck in a scene, I just reach into my gut and extract something." Archie is based on Lear's Russian-Jewish father Herman, who really did tell his wife to "stifle." When Mary Hartman went to a psychiatrist, says the writer, "she told the same story...