Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair of pants, a wallet, a watch, and a chain were stolen from a locker in the basement of the Indoor Athletic Building between 8 and 8:15 p.m. on Thursday. Total value of the items...
...people arguing about bets; 'Hold on there, I'll handle this' (waving pint of whiskey, fistful of dollar bills); girl riding piggyback, T-shirt says, "Stolen from Fort Lauderdale Jail.' Thousands of teen-agers, group singing 'Let the Sun Shine In,' ten soldiers guarding the American flag...So far we hadn't seen that special kind of face...the mark of the whiskey gentry--a pretentious mix of booze, failed dreams and a terminal identity crisis; the inevitable result of too much inbreeding in a closed and ignorant culture...
...Hebrew or munus in Latin--were ambiguous; none of the classical languages had a specific term for a corrupting gift. Theoretically, even in Roman law a judge could accept contributions from both sides and still rule justly. Not until 1535 did Miles Coverdale use a Middle English term for stolen objects to translate a passage in Ecclesiastes as "all brybes and unrighteousness...
...enraged tigress must be shot. Offstage, Fevvers nearly surrenders her putative virtue to a Russian grand duke. The trip on the Great Siberian Railway brings worse tidings: sabotage, derailment, kidnaping outlaws. Walser loses himself and his memory in the vast tundra, while Fevvers realizes that the vanished reporter has stolen a piece of her heart...
This is the gulf of credibility that Michael Drosnin faced when he began work on Citizen Hughes, part biography and part expose, based on thousands of pages of memorandums in Hughes' handwriting. There were added problems: the documents were stolen property, and Drosnin had a source to protect--the burglar who broke into Hughes' Los Angeles office building and took the papers in 1974. Drosnin, a former reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, insists that he never paid a penny for the notes, which were later validated by the two handwriting experts used by the Hughes...