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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dominant individual in this period, in which the ball went from one end to the other quite frequently, was little Larry Ekpebu, varsity center forward. Ekpebu was fast and aggressive all day, but especially so in the second half. Often he stole the ball away from a Dartmouth defender and passed down the field only to be beaten by the goalie or another defenseman...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Soccer Team Nips Indians on Late Goal, McCall Boots in Free Kick for 2-1 Win | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Fun on the Card | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Armed with shotguns and carrying provisions, two men stole aboard the 400-ft. hulk of the Liberian tanker African Queen as she lay stranded and shoal-torn ten miles off Ocean City, Md. It was March, and the sea pounded against the rusting hull of the ship, which had run aground three months before. With 200 ft. of her bow ripped away, the 13,800-ton African Queen had been officially abandoned by her owners; now watermen from Ocean City poked about the hulk, prying at loose fittings, taking everything movable that seemed salable. The two newcomers watched patiently until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEA: Saga of the African Queen | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Thomas: The truth is that the high school principal stole my girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No Tears for Mr. Thomas | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...night last week Jan Drake draped herself in her best stone-marten stole and joined Little Augie for drinks at the Copa, then went on to a spaghetti house (Husband Drake had a nightclub engagement in Washington). After dinner, they headed for the Drake home in Queens to look at boxing matches on TV. They never got there. Forty-five minutes after leaving Manhattan, Augie's black Cadillac was found on a quiet street in Queens, its motor still running. Jan Drake was slumped against the car window, one bullet hole in her temple, a second in her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Finger Exercise | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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