Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet man, Harvey had been given generally good marks by his hospital supervisors for his caring attitude toward patients. He had, however, come under suspicion at the VA hospital in 1985, when some tissue samples were stolen from the hospital's labs. Harvey resigned, and was then hired as an orderly by Drake, which was not told of his troubles at the VA because of federal privacy laws...
...leave no doubt: something is up on the fashion runway, and it is more than hemlines. After several drowsy years, couture is in again by being far-out again. The new high-fashion collections have exploded in a colorful array of stylized, theatrical creations, and in the process have stolen back much of the action from the swaggering ready-to-wear industry. The relentlessly ballyhooed miniskirts, to be sure, are riding high -- very high. But in addition, the couture lines offer daring, bewitching and wacky costumes that pay homage to, . among other things, 17th and 18th century court pageantry, French...
...Russian origin of American baseball is a simple fact and a closed issue, but Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, jocularly dubbed "Goose Glasnost" by the Professional Lapta Writers Association, has graciously allowed speculation on how the game actually got to America. Pravda believes it was stolen by a Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow who scurrilously wheedled details of lapta out of an unwary Russian cook during an evening of illicit and probably drug-induced lovemaking sometime during the mid-19th century...
...with poise and outlined her activities and opinions with candor, dignity and grace under the pressure of probing examination and political pettifogging. She offers no excuses for her absolute loyalty to her boss or for having provided her unquestioning support in pursuit of his operational goals. Fawn Hall has stolen the Iran-contra show...
...size dog ritually feeds on the residents of a small village, and in the year 2020, time becomes a fatal disease. A recurrent theme is that the world has lost its grip, "has been to so many parties, been in so many fights, lost its keys, had its handbag stolen, drunk too much...