Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talking about. He had just spent 31 days as a captive after his abduction during a traffic jam near Rome's Via Veneto. Last week Bulgari, 40, lighter by 20 lbs. and a little over $2 million in ransom, was found tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked in a 6-ft. square cell, he told police, and could not identify his captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom...
...they ought to be able to do logarithms. Yet the superbikes' forward motion does not differ substantially from that of the cheaper models. Non-aficionados often wonder whether it might be cheaper to buy ten $100 models, replacing each one as it gets worn out. Or, more likely, stolen; bicycle theft has become America's fastest-growing crime...
...another field day for the Crimson batters as they pounded out 13 hits. Second baseman Jimmy Thomas opened the game with a walk and advanced to second as Ed Durso hit into a fielder's choice. Leigh Hogan singled and took second on a stolen base. With a man on second and third, Crimson right fielder Joe Sciolla stroked a single scoring two runs...
...game proved to be a veritable field day for the Crimson batters. Hogan went two for five with a stolen base and an RBI. Sciolla connected on two hits in four at bats and Goetz reached base three of the four times he got up. Goetz also gained...
...began in 1941. With Japanese forces sweeping into China, Peking Man was crated and sent to a U.S. Marine base near Chingwangtao for shipment to safekeeping in the U.S. Before the Marines were able to leave, the Japanese arrived. In the confusion, the bones were lost. Or were they stolen? Over the years only one informant, a woman who said she was the widow of one of the Marines, claimed to have the bones in her possession. In 1972 she agreed to meet Janus and Shapiro on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, produced a photograph of what...