Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Numisguided. In Hermosa Beach, Calif., someone smashed a plate-glass window, stole 1?-a 1909 Lincoln penny worth...
Detective Sgt. Leo Davenport, one of the three detectives called in by university police to question Roderick P. Murphy, noticed that the youth was wearing an expensive-looking but ill-fitting tweed topcoat. Recalling the robbery report, Davenport said, "You gave that guy quite a beating when you stole the coat and wallet...
...Insisted that an "embezzler should lose what he owned as well as what he stole," authorized confiscation of all personal property of Batista and hundreds of officials connected with him-including all Congressmen, mayors, governors, Supreme Court justices, all armed-forces officers who supported Batista's 1952 coup...
Synfll. In Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,* a village in Wales, thieves stole the 2O-ft. sign from the railway station...
...Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Director Rouben Mamoulian, back in 1953, as a Broadway musical drama-a sort of Guys and Dolls with a social message. The message: If Robin were alive today, he would be a labor leader, and even if he gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that is not hard to understand. Even in this cautious rewrite...