Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House, the country estate of British Millionaire Sir Alfred Beit located 18 miles southwest of Dublin, went off at < 2 a.m. Police searched the premises, found nothing amiss, then left. The next morning, the administrator of the collection discovered that 18 paintings worth an estimated $45 million had been stolen. Sir Alfred put the blame on "thieves of a political nature...
Defense attorneys have argued that by making Walker its star witness, the prosecution is "using the shark to catch the minnow." Whitworth's defense may rest on Walker's testimony that the master spy never informed his friend that the stolen secrets were destined for the Soviets. In his final testimony, however, Walker said that "common sense" should have told Whitworth just who the buyer...
Designated hitter Jim DePalo led the team in batting (.363), RBI (25), hits (33), stolen bases (18), and home runs...
...departure of McAndrews and Kay also means the loss of the team's second-and third-place stolen base leaders, who accounted for nearly half of the club's thefts between them--and 61 over the last two years...
James Kirkland Batson is black, and the Kentucky jurors who convicted him in 1984 of burglary and receipt of stolen goods were all white. The prosecutor had excluded four blacks from the jury with peremptory challenges, which have long been exercised without any explanation required. But last week in an important 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court reined in the practice. Justice Lewis Powell, writing for the majority, observed that intentional racial bias denies "the protection that a trial by jury is intended to secure"--a jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously...