Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fidel Castro, who undeniably stole the headlines of American newspapers since Jan. 1, 1959. J. BELZA, M.D. Menomonie...
Amplification. In Milwaukee, Llewellyn M. Culbert stole a record player from a department store, was arrested after he went back to have the machine repaired...
...Yalies were fooled by Kinney's ball-handling, but in the second half they rolled through the previously strong Crimson defenses. Jud Calkins, a doubtful starter because of an injury, almost stole the show from Kinney and piloted Yale back into the game...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...
Private Lives. Hammett had been a Private Eye himself. He knew that "house burglary is probably the poorest-paid trade in the world." He had been mistaken for a Prohibition agent, hired by a woman to fire her housekeeper, was friendly with a man who stole a Ferris wheel. And he had stumbled upon a young woman who did not tell him that she thought his work was interesting. Unlike...