Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Green, a young Negro he had known in prison, "bought" a .22 pistol from him for $20, and invited Green along because he had "a good job setup in The Bronx." On the way, they prowled a dark Greenwich Village street, stuck up a frightened couple and stole $12. But by 12:30, as he led Green aimlessly around The Bronx, it became embarrassingly evident that he hadn't really planned a big robbery...
...performing seals of Communism's traveling peace circus. Two hundred strong, they staged their third meeting of the World Peace Council beneath a Barnum-&-Bailey-sized replica of Picasso's peace dove. And as usually happens when Communists gather under a big tent, the verbal contortionists stole the show...
Etiquette. In St. Louis, burglars who stole a safe containing $800 from the Diamond Cleaners shop telephoned Owner James E. Frick for the combination, so they wouldn't damage the strong box getting it open...
...mugwumps," he certainly will not get the two mugwump votes of our household! As voters in Precinct 129 of Harris County, we are indignant over the malicious allegations of the Taft machine here which invented a cock-and-bull story about those "whisky-drinking, beer-guzzling Ike supporters who stole Chairman Miller's silverware," and then turned right around and stole our votes at Mineral Wells. To thousands of outraged Texans, Truman may stand for the Fair Deal, but Taft stands for the Dirty Deal...
Fortnight ago, when thieves broke into Brooklyn's Regina Pacis shrine and stole two diamond-studded crowns (TIME, June 9), Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi made a public appeal. If the thieves would return his church's treasures, he would "forgive and forget." Through the week his parishioners, who had given their money and jewels for the crowns, prayed earnestly for their return...