Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lament's avalanche of quotes and statistics is often devastating. "Cheating is a way of life here," one Penn student told him. By 1976 only half the undergraduates at Stanford would say they thought cheating was unjustifiable. In one year 4,500 books were stolen from the Berkeley library. When caught, college thieves and cheaters tended to say, "I didn't do anything that everyone else isn't doing." Faculties were not much help. Many, Lament reports, objected to taking a moral stand for fear of "sounding like scolds" to their students. As a University of Chicago...
...general strike, thousands of Managuans turned to looting. People were seen carrying away sides of beef, cases of rum, huge bags of coffee and flour. "We will exchange what we have for what we need later," one woman looter ex plained. "We had nothing before." Swigging bottles of stolen beer, Somoza's guardsmen tried to direct the looters toward stores owned by opponents of the regime. Other shopkeepers simply threw their doors open to the pillagers, hoping that they could at least dissuade the mobs from destroying expensive equipment. Said a poultry dealer after the pillagers stole more than...
...Cleveland, a crowd of 50,000 besieges three downtown butcher shops. A California woman collects 8,400 cans of food. And the run on sugar and sugar substitutes is so great that many beehives are stolen for their honey...
...father sends $50 a month, and I never get to see any of it." "Oh yeah, money is such a bitch. I couldn't believe it; last night my father came over to pick up a table and my mother said, 'Children, your father has just stolen a table...
...television spot extolling a product that promises to foil gem thieves. The instrument, marketed by Gemprint, Ltd., of Chicago, photographs a diamond's interior; the picture is filed at the company's headquarters, where it is always available to identify the gem if it is lost or stolen. "I can't deny I got into it to supplement my income," explains Kelley, who admits that his pay as a Gemprint director and huckster is "very substantial." But, ever the cop, Kelley contends, "I want to cripple the gem theft business." And no one, after all, ever said...