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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...useful, but firmly exclude the physically ailing and the politically suspect. They have been picked over like animals, their teeth inspected, their arms examined. Some lack the ability to work; some are ex-Communists, or are rejected on the grounds of moral turpitude-which may mean either that they stole some bread or coal in the horrible winter of 1946, or that they are hardened criminals, as a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Unwanted | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...Army Air Forces which showed Wingate how to do his job. Back to Mandalay is Thomas' story of how a crack team of U.S. airmen, in effect, put wings on Wingate's raiders, made his final campaign in North Burma "an air show" and stole the show from the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Flip in Burma | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...Other Cheek. In Nashville, Tenn., the Gideon Society's W. H. Mason persuaded the judge to drop larceny charges against three men who stole a box full of Bibles, gave each a New Testament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1951 | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...studying in Widener and ask them what course they were taking. He would then borrow all the books for that course in the library. Then no one could get any to study. After this incident, I had plates put in all books that were returned, saying 'The man who stole this book from the library is now serving a sentence of two and a half years at hard labor...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Faculty Profile | 12/12/1951 | See Source »

...duplex apartment off Manhattan's Park Avenue, where her mother lives with her as companion, housekeeper and secretary. Patrice dresses well but not lavishly, and if she has a weakness for finery, it comes out at the furriers. Her wardrobe includes two mink coats, a mink cape and stole, a nutria coat, an ermine wrap, and a spare mink skin "to keep my throat warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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