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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the same month, Jackson was charged with a burglary. According to police, he broke into a motorcycle shop and stole various items of cycle gear. When brought in for booking, Jackson, who according to the police had already admitted to the crimes, allegedly instigated a fight with the arresting officer who had to be assisted by other policemen in controlling Jackson. Jackson was convicted of the burglary and put on probation...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: West to Crime and Punishment | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

...meet Schwilden after midnight in front of a church in a remote village. At the rendezvous, Schwilden found a scared young man wearing a plastic mask who blindfolded him, then drove him for miles around the countryside. "I am not a thief," he insisted. "I am an idealist who stole to do something about the refugees and the hunger." Deep in a forest, he produced the picture, which he held up before the car's headlights while Schwilden photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lost | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Perhaps the weirdest case in the KGB's history?and one of its dizziest triumphs?occurred in 1967, when three men stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...Maybe we should ask where the J.D.L. intends to use these newly acquired skills. If they intend to tear my country apart, I am concerned. If they intend to protect the home they stole from the Arab, they should be training on that ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1971 | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...tippler himself, Rahu stole and sipped the nectar of immortality. As punishment, he was snipped in two by Vishnu. The sun and the moon tattled on Rahu; he still tries to retaliate by swallowing them. Sometimes he does, causing eclipses, but they always slip through his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Return of the Toddy Tappers | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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