Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands. An afternoon of hunting down the matching paper in the copy shops in Cambridge, a few dollars at Gnomon copy, a little cut and paste, and Voila! 40 tickets to Harvard's 350th ball produced for less than the price of a single ticket. Add the drinks I stole from the bar, and I must have cost Archie Epps at least...
...search of the plaque commemorating Compson's mythic jump. Years ago a group of Faulkner fans are said to have placed a bronze plaque on the side of the bridge that saw Compson's tumble. It is also said that not long ago, a group of equally ardent fans stole the plaque. We did not know that as we approached the bridge, eager to pay homage to the desperation Compson felt; I understood a bit of his confusion...
...stole" PTL from its rightful ministers...
...response, Falwell scoffed, "To say that Jerry Falwell stole PTL is like accusing someone of stealing the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg." As Falwell told it, Bakker "misled me and lied to me in the meeting in Palm Springs." The Lynchburg televangelist insisted that he did not threaten Bakker with the Swaggart takeover rumor. Rather, Bakker asked him to take over PTL, saying, "You're the only preacher I trust right...
...Square landing provided an eerie echo of a February 1974 incident in which a disgruntled U.S. Army private stole a helicopter from Fort Meade, Md., and landed it safely on the South Lawn of the White House. Then, as now, officials were shocked at the ease with which an unidentified craft was able to penetrate vital and heavily defended airspace. Initially, the Soviet press drew parallels between the two incidents, as if to minimize their seriousness. But TASS reported that during the emergency Politburo meeting the Soviet leadership took a far harsher view, and Soviet newscasters said an investigation would...