Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilt factor in giving up the canal. To be sure, the U.S. acquired the canal territory in a grandly imperialistic manner in 1903, and the waterway remains one of the last, most prominent vestiges of the colonial era. As Senator S.I. Hayakawa put it, not altogether whimsically, "We stole it fair and square." But it can be argued that ever since the canal was opened for business in 1914, the U.S. has more than made up for its initial land grab. It has managed the canal in an openhanded manner, allowing access to all the world's shipping, including...
Last year, the Administrative Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences suspended Jeffrey Nelson, an American History student who allegedly stole between 3000 and 5000 books from University libraries...
...greatly from a surprisingly strong performance by Don Gullett, one of George Steinbrenner's more lucrative-check-cashers. Gullett went eight and one-third innings before yielding to ex-Red Sox (yes sir, we certainly remember) hurler, Sparky Lyle. Lyle, who won two of the three games the Yankees stole from the Royals, notched his third 1977 post-season...
...Edward Boutonnet, who is chairman of the California Artichoke Advisory Board, are "the sightseers who stop their cars and pick our artichokes. They're affluent doctors and lawyers and people like that. You confront them when they're stealing and they get insulted. But if you stole things from their offices, they'd have you arrested. It burns...
...Unproved Charges In addition to magnifying the minuscule, Lasky reports as undisputable fact many old charges that have never been proved: that Johnson stole a Senate primary ejection in Texas in 1948; that J.F.K. defeated Nixon in 1960 only because votes were stolen with his approval in Illinois and Texas; that Harry Truman won a 1934 Senate primary election in Missouri on votes fraudulently delivered by the Prendergast machine...