Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Munson begrudged the ink and air time given to players he considered less talented, especially Boston Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk, who stole the spotlight from him with an outstanding rookie season in 1972. "For a while it was like I didn't exist," Munson later said. He could be surly in public, and never bothered with the art of image making. He conducted a celebrated feud with George Steinbrenner when the Yankee owner signed Reggie Jackson to a more lucrative contract than his. Munson's salary was finally renegotiated; he signed a four-year pact averaging...
...stolen beer, Somoza's guardsmen tried to direct the looters toward stores owned by opponents of the regime. Other shopkeepers simply threw their doors open to the pillagers, hoping that they could at least dissuade the mobs from destroying expensive equipment. Said a poultry dealer after the pillagers stole more than 42,000 chickens: "I no longer have feed. The poor people can have them...
...fourth game, Gainey banged Defenseman Dave Maloney, 22, into the boards near the Ranger goal, stole the puck and tied the score. The playoff-wise Canadiens coolly put the game away in the sudden-death overtime...
...crooked his way to control over subscription lists for L.A.'s three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...
...freestyle drawing recalls the loony sketches of Edward Lear, perhaps be cause, like those masters of nonsense, he fathered no children except those of his imagination. And what children: the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax who tries to protect the environment against predators, the Grinch who stole Christmas, Horton the elephant who nests in a tree, Yertle the Turtle, the Sneetches, the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, the Tufted Gustard, the Stuffed Ormie...