Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DePalo, after being hit by a pitch from Army starter Parker King, swiped two bases--the fourth time this season that he has stolen both second and third in the same journey on the basepaths. He came in to score on a Chris McAndrews single...
...south Dade County. In one incident, a guard manning a Brink's truck was shot in the back by a gunman. As he lay bleeding on the ground, a second man walked up and shot him twice with an automatic rifle. Incredibly, he survived. The crooks often used stolen cars for their getaway vehicles. In two instances the automobiles had belonged to young men who were gunned down while target shooting in an abandoned quarry. The FBI soon joined the Florida police in a search for the robbers...
...balmy spring morning two weeks ago, FBI Agents Benjamin Grogan, 53, and Gerald Dove, 30, spotted one of the stolen cars on a quiet Miami street. They called for reinforcements. As three FBI cars closed in on the black Monte Carlo, two men jumped out of the car and started firing. After the gun battle, FBI Director William Webster said of the suspects: "They were two particularly violent individuals who did not shoot out of excitement or fear...
Matix and Platt appeared to have no ties to the drug trade, organized crime or extremist paramilitary groups. What, then, motivated them? What did they do with all their stolen money? Were they somehow involved in the deaths of their wives? As Agents Grogan and Dove were laid to rest last week, the FBI struggled to tie together the loose ends in the twisted trail of the lawmen's killers...
...memory, Legend offers us a couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that no one story or author has a copyright on Good and Evil, but it is definitely a tired plot which leaves the viewer expecting Frodo to walk in at any moment...