Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With two minutes to play, Bill Richling sank a field goal from 20 feet out to ignite the Crimson rally and put them within six points of the Lions. After a field goal by Mike Donolfue, Bob Repetto stole the ball and netted two more to bring the score to 71-69 with 15 seconds to play...
...conforming to a half-century of practice, hardly lived up to the idealistic constitution. During his seven years the gross national product soared from $2 billion to $2.6 billion, but the public debt rose from $200 million to $1.5 billion. Corruption ranged all the way from army sergeants who stole chickens to Batista himself, who shared with his cronies a 30% kickback on public-works contracts. Potbellied Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla and his family made off with the entire army retirement fund of $40 million. Havana storekeepers who wanted to attract crowds by having a bus-stop sign...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...
...Proportions. A gold-crusted coach drawn by six bays hauled the Garcias in style to the Imperial Palace. At a lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
Entrusted with the ashes of his master, a Japanese diplomat who died in Washington, Ito was on his way home. Then a trio from the wagon train killed his traveling companion and stole the sacred urn, sure that the ashes were really Oriental jewels. After chasing the culprits into the middle of a mess of Comanches, Ito waited while the Indians armed them with tomahawks, then dispatched the whole crew with his terrible sword. "Eeee-to," clucked Bond in not-too-angry disapproval, after he rode up too late to stop the sudden justice. But Ito was inconsolable. His master...