Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been charged with criminal homicide, rape, deviant sexual acts, robbery, indecent assault, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, and receiving stolen property. Authorities plan to seek the death penalty, said District Attorney Donald Corriere...
Their passions, crystallized by a stolen kiss in the middle of a poppy field, are initially quashed by Lucy's rather repressed chaperone/cousin, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), who regards the kiss as nothing less than a violation of Lucy's honor--as well as a stain upon her own reputation as Lucy's escort...
After her teammate advanced to second on a stolen base, Wheaton's Lisa Darcy stroked a blistering grounder into the hole...
...ironic that The Crimson feels entitled to pronounce on what is and is not ethical behavior. Where was ethical behavior when The Crimson saw fit to use a private contract stolen from private files as a basis for a string of news stories and commentaries last fall and winter, without revealing the source...
...were the Marcos shoes, like the billions of stolen dollars, merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia...