Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example of dark intrigue which Kraus recalls from what seems to be a generous supply is the day he arrived and found that all the furniture save his desk, chair, and bookcase had been stolen in the middle of the night by a covetous fellow Senator. Having tracked the furniture, after receiving "at least six" stories about where it was and when it would be back. Kraus found that he couldn't simply retrieve it but would have to wait for the Senate President to reassert his authority. "Ultimately, they did have the confrontation," and the furniture was recovered...
Police estimated the value of property stolen from February 10 to February 16 at $4121.85 including a Volks wagon Van valued at $2500 that was stolen from the Broad way garage...
...room in Matthews Hall, and found a white male, about 19 or 20 years old, in a plaid button down shirt and brown pants going through his desk. The man fled through the door. The police found on the student's desk a red Harvard notebook that had been stolen from the common room of Grays Yall earlier that evening. A gold pen and a gold watch were also stolen form the common room that night...
...subsequent rise to criminal eminence was swift: she fell in with a dacoit named Babu Gujar, seduced his lieutenant Vikram Mallaha and, while bathing Gujar one evening, stabbed him to death. Thus Mallaha became chieftain, Phoolan second in command. Dressed in blue jeans and a multicolored turban, brandishing a stolen bullhorn and a rifle, she quickly earned a reputation as a deadly shot. When Mallaha's restive followers killed him, Phoolan formed her own gang. On Feb. 14, 1981, to avenge her lover's murder, she and her marauders gunned down 20 apparently innocent citizens in the village...
...once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished group of guests who had come to confer with the KGB chief discovered on leaving his office that all their elegant fur hats had been stolen from the anteroom...