Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preventive War. In Melbourne, Australia, thieves broke into the Pedigree Publications printing plant, stole 10,000 copies of a new police booklet on crime prevention...
...command of its adjutant general, a World War II captain named Joe W. Henry Jr., who now wears two stars, gave the newsmen little protection. At the Oliver Springs encounter, Henry denounced the photographers to curry favor with the mob. Guardsmen stood by while rioters roughed up newsmen and stole cameras...
Mohammed Mossadegh, as weird and wondrous a character as ever stole a headline, was swept into office as Iran's Premier in 1951 on a promise to nationalize the sprawling British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. He accomplished his purpose in a dervishlike vortex of tantrums, sulks, fainting spells, mopes and well-publicized weeping that made even readers of Lil Abner forget Daisy Mae. In doing so, he brought his country to bankruptcy. At one point in his frenzied career, Mossy succeeded in frightening the Shah clean out of his own country...
...vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done as an outrage to my church. This is vendetta...
Lazy as a cloud, the black-hulled, three-masted schooner Creole loafed along the coast of Spain last week. To gay music on the intercom, the 190-ft. Creole, world's biggest privately owned sailing vessel, stole past silver-sanded coves and pastel villages. On sunny afternoons, while the schooner lay at anchor, passengers dipped in the warm water or sipped in cafes ashore. After dark, white-gloved stewards moved unobtrusively among the guests in a softly lighted dining room hung with French impressionist paintings. Pushed by gentle winds, the Creole headed at week...