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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduated summs. Lemme read you my speech. See how much respect you lack for it. It's called "No Respect #19," and it's based on a routine which put me through college, although it didn't garner me much Respect, especially in light of the neighborhood and all. Stole the hubcaps off my mother-in-law, who was so old that she thought the mailman was just the Ford version of the Sedan de Ville...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

Navy retaliated with their sole tally of the game in the fifth inning. Ronald Lovelace walked, stole second base, and sprinted home on a single by George Iams. From then on there was nothing but zeros on the scoreboard for the remainder of the game...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Brown Pitches 12 Innings for 2-1 Win | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

Steel sent it to four-all with two excellent shots, then stole the match with an incredible crosscourt backhand winner from behind the baseline...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Netmen Nail Big Green, 6-3, Sending League Mark to 4-0 | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

...snatching from old ladies to work in convalescent homes. Graffiti artists in New York City have been ordered to swap their paint sprayers for cleaning brushes. A professor arrested in a protest demonstration was sentenced to write a 1,500-word essay on civil disobedience, while a thief who stole some saddles from a farmer was made to raise a pig and a calf for his victim. One judge is even said to have sentenced a naked Frisbee player to plant fig trees in a park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fitting Justice? | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...visitors did it by winning four of the six singles matches--two after being down match point--and cruising home with a pair of victories in the doubles competition. All in all, an incredible total of eight sets came down to tiebreakers, and the men in red--voila--stole six of them...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard Gives Lions a Double-Mauling | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

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