Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Owner Calvin Griffith's orders, into the starting job at second base. He batted .292 his first season and was named Rookie of the Year. (The National League's top rookie that year turned out to be quite a player himself: Tom Seaver.) Two seasons later, Carew stole home seven times, tying the major league record. His manager was Billy Martin, now the godfather of Carew's older daughter, Charryse. "I taught him how to steal home," Martin says. "That's all I ever taught him. As for hitting, he knew how to do that...
Hartford. Touché, 19, who earned his nickname by his dexterity with a switchblade, has been in trouble since he was eleven; he started fires, snatched pocketbooks, stole cars, burglarized homes, slashed and shot people. When a pal was locked up in Connecticut's Meriden Home for Boys, Touché broke in with a gun and freed him. Touché was placed in a specially built cell in Meriden because he had escaped from the institution 17 times...
...that ungodly hour--to pay a visit. (Ungodly, that is, for the grad student; for Fairbank, who is always home by 10 p.m. no matter what the occasion, it was the middle of the morning.) Fairbank noticed a mass of typewritten drafts on the table which he promptly stole and turned in, and which of course proved to be a brilliant thesis. Then too, Fairbank had known when it was time...
...urging of a friend. The experience he relates was clearly jarring: he found his file in an office and read his freshman proctor's slight unfavorable and unsympathetic report on him; on the stairs, he ran into the first woman he had slept with, and they stole upstairs, but the shallowness of the chance meeting stopped them from making love; finally, Evans was teargassed, beaten over the head with a policeman's club and arrested...
...grinch who stole Castro is Bill Moyers, the former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson who a year ago left public television to become chief correspondent for CBS Reports. He did not set out to make Castro break his promise, but when Moyers was in Cuba last January filming a documentary, Castro showed up and wanted to talk-for 15½ hours, it turned out. Not to worry, Barbara. Says Moyers: "Even if Castro had come out and told me that he personally handed the rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald, our interviews wouldn't be competitive...