Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the canniest collectors of all are thieves, whose acquisitions from museums, galleries, churches and private homes are seldom recovered, despite intensive international police work. Interpol has an FBI-style Most Wanted list of stolen art works, some dating from 1938. Last week a priceless Tintoretto painting missing for nearly 30 years was recovered by the FBI in New York...
...wiped out./ Say it in the morning. Say it in the evening./ Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers who refused to take smallpox vaccinations 15 years ago are now "dropping uppers and downers with the best of them," and "Benares looks set on replacing Bangkok as Needle City, Asia...
...because he had been a loyal friend. Kennedy answered with an emotional attack on the Shah, who, he claimed, "ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind." How can we justify taking in the Shah "with his umpteen billions of dollars that he'd stolen from Iran," Kennedy demanded, "and at the same time say to Hispanics who are here legally that they have to wait nine years to bring their wife and children to this country...
...last theft at the museum was in 1973, when a collection of Greek and Roman coins was stolen. Almost all of those pieces were eventually recovered...
...Chinese jade container, worth approximately $20,000, has been stolen from the Fogg Art Museum...