Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tolleson said that the stolen goods include plastic bowls and about 800 spoons, 500 knives and 400 forks. In the Houses, thefts also include glasses, which are not used in the Union, Tolleson said...
...weeks ago, 19-year-old Elijah Pate was shot dead by policemen who say he was trying to run them over in a stolen car. Two autopsies show that the officers lied about the incident. The bullets that his Pate struck areas of his body that couldn't have been exposed if, as the Boston police claim, they shot while he was trying to get away...
...zany glee is never accompanied by a syllable. Chico is the tough one. Zeppo is handsome and does little. They are the Marxes, the funniest brothers in the U. S. In this adaptation of their musicomedy, a better piece than their first talkie (The Cocoanuts), the plot about a stolen painting is brought scornfully to light once in a while, and then merely to prove that they had a plot to ignore. Romantic songs and parades of young women are reduced to a minimum. For an hour and a half the Marx brothers air their crazy jumble of satiric irrelevancies...
...goes. In 1974, embezzlement cost the country three billion dollars, an amount equal to all the money and stolen property on the FBI Index Property Crimes for the same year (these include burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft). But there were only 13,000 arrests for embezzlement that year, compared with 1.7 million arrests for the "crimes of the poor...
When police recover a stolen auto or camera, they can attempt to find the owner through the item's serial number. But when authorities find filched gems, they know the owners have probably kissed their property goodbye. Most gems contain no traceable markings. Systems for registering diamonds by photography and other means have proved unreliable. Says Robert Doubet, vice president of Lazare Kaplan & Sons, a New York City diamond-cutting firm: "Once removed from its mounting, a diamond is as good as ownerless...