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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trio almost clicked on the second Terrier penalty at 7:55. Fischer stole the puck along the boards at center ice, broke up the middle on a 3-on-2 rush, and passed to Hurley trailing on left wing. The freshman unleashed a slapshot which Burke kicked aside at the last second. Norton, positioned perfectly for the rebound, could not lift her shot over the sprawling Burke...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Pucksters Blanked By B.U. In Ice Hockey Season Opener, 4-0 | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...same year the company's reputation began to grow when it introduced one of the first desktop electronic calculators. But eight years later Texas Instruments began selling hand-held machines made with silicon chips and stole the market. Wang then quickly shifted his company's efforts into large-scale office electronics. In 1972 the company entered the word processor market, and soon introduced the television-like screen that nearly all electronic word processing equipment now uses for displaying text. The company at present has 35% of the world market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Guru of Gizmos | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Whatever effect Lady Barnett's death may have on the reform of shoplifting laws, some noncompulsive thieves added a ghoulish touch to the debate: while members of her family were attending a memorial service, thieves broke into Lady Barnett's manor house near Leicester and stole $14,400 worth of silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pilfering Urges | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...John Anderson's Independent bid stole the media spotlight, and Commoner has had to resort to tactics like his "Bullshit" radio commercials to capture any attention...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Where They Stand | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Later in the book, in an essay called "Were Dinosaurs Dumb?," Gould takes us back to third grade and quotes from his textbook, the 1948 edition of Bertha Morris Partker's Animals of Yesterday, which the author admits he stole from P.S.26. Presenting the prevalent view of the huge reptiles, Gould writes...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: At Home With an Evolutionist | 10/28/1980 | See Source »

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