Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Yale University will return to the heirs of Baron Edmond de Rothschild a rare 15th century Passover prayer book that apparently was stolen from the Rothschild family by the Nazis during World War II and eventually was donated to Yale...
...gymnastics-where, before the boycott, American heartthrobs like Kurt Thomas and Bart Connor were expected to do especially well-the show was stolen by Alexander Ditiatin, 22. The handsome Soviet leaped and vaulted to a total of eight medals, the most won by an individual since the modern Games began in 1896. The previous record was held by U.S. Swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven medals in 1972, and by Ditiatin's teammate Nikolai Andrianov, who won seven gymnastics prizes at the 1976 Olympics. Andrianov, making something of a comeback at the relatively advanced age of 27, picked...
Presidential politics is, more than anything else, personality politics. The campaign will take many unexpected twists and turns before Election Day on Nov. 4. But last week, in Joe Louis Arena, the Republican Party seemed clearly to have stolen a march on the Democrats in the contest to form a new, right-center coalition and become the new majority...
...their best hooves forward on the Senate floor, lurching from tax cut proposal to tax cut proposal. Usurping the populist initiative by adopting a stance historically reserved as a presidential re-election panacea, the GOP in the name of its soon-to-be coronated nominee Ronald Reagan has stolen some traditional Democratic thunder. President Carter last week called the proposal "irresponsible," adding that it would prove the first step in a plan that could cost the Federal Treasury $280 billion a year...
...Then, over a loudspeaker came an unfamiliar voice: "We won't kill any Thais. All we will take is some food." Similar sounds awakened Cambodian refugees at two camps straddling the nearby border between Thailand and Cambodia. All too soon they recognized the fatigue-clad intruders who had stolen into their midst under cover of darkness as Vietnamese soldiers. As back-up mortar and artillery fire echoed in the distance, the Vietnamese began digging foxholes at the camps, sending the frightened refugees fleeing into nearby paddyfields...