Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Arthur ever existed, he was hardly the Lerner & Loewe hero who ruled so romantically over the fabled Camelot. He was more likely a quarrelsome and ruthless local chieftain who badgered monks, stole their cattle, and led a hardy band of early English Christians in clobbering barbarian invaders at the battle of Mount Badon in A.D. 517. Still, avid Arthurians yearn to prove either version-and it now looks as though some hard archaeological evidence is at hand in a hilly pasture at Cadbury Castle, 100 miles southwest of London...
...gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong in 1928 for a memorable series of recordings. Recalls Hines: "I wanted to play like him, and he wanted to play like me, so we both stole a little from each other." What evolved was Hines's "trumpet style"-a left hand that cushioned, a right hand that attacked. In one swoop, he freed the piano from the ricky-tick niceties of ragtime and set a standard that ever since has influenced jazz pianists, notably Teddy Wilson...
...when Burnice admitted in 1961 that during the more than 40 years that she had served as the bookkeeper in her father's bank she had embezzled $2,126,859.10 of their funds-more than John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and all her boys together stole at gunpoint from bank coffers in the '30s. Most of the money, it turned out, had gone into Burnice's unsuccessful speculations and investments...
...Diefenbaker's reproof adequate action? How much had he been told of the report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which disclosed that in Germany in 1949 Gerda stole two border passes and sold them to a Russian intelligence agent in East Berlin? The same year she showed up in a U.S. Army maneuver area with a man who had crossed over illegally from East Germany, carrying "a camera purportedly to take pictures of the area." After entering Canada in 1955, Gerda moved into an apartment below some "known Soviet agents," turned to prostitution ($15 to $20 per customer...
...draws, bad cramps, and bad tennis cost Harvard the New England intercollegiate team tennis title, but Crimson sophomore Bernie Adelsberg stole the show by upsetting the first and second seeded players to win the singles championship...