Word: stolen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Segal's play starts one year after Julius Caesar's death, when his adopted son Octavian returns to Italy. Octavian wants to reclaim his inheritance, which Mark Antony has stolen, and he is determined to fight for his fortune. Octavian was confident of his military power, but he needed some political clout, so he persuades Cicero to come out of retirement, go back to the Senate, and challenge Mark Antony's supremacy...
...after his bag was stolen at the dental clinic, Andrei met me at the train station. He looked haggard, as if he were suffering from insomnia or prolonged illness. His lips were trembling and his voice broke: "Lusia, they stole it." He spoke with acute pain...
When the bag was stolen from our car, Andrei walked from the vehicle toward me. His expression was that of a man who had just learned of the death of someone close to him. But after a few days he would sit down at his desk again. Andrei has a talent for finishing what he starts...
...excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
...soon as it was widely known in the fall of 1981 that Andrei Sakharov and I were planning a hunger strike to get my daughter-in-law an exit visa, the car was stolen. When we were on the hunger strike and not leaving the house because we were afraid of being grabbed on the street and forcibly hospitalized, the car was suddenly found. The state traffic police kept calling us to come for it. We ignored them. But at last, unable to lure us out of the house with the prospect of getting our car back, they simply broke...