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Word: stoles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Depending on your preference, Steinbrenner is a cruel joke, the grinch who stole baseball or a plague upon the land...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: George Steinbrenner, You're No Lou Gehrig | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

Once again, the Big Red stole another victory from the Crimson. The last-minute comeback was less than dramatic, less than spectacular...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Big Red Balloon Takes Off, 19-17 | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

Hurst, 18-6, walked Rob Ducey--the ninth-place batter in the Toronto lineup--on a 3-2 pitch to start the eighth. With one out and Kelly Gruber batting, Ducey stole second and continued to third when Gedman threw the ball into center field. Gruber then hit a sacrifice fly to center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

Recent polls indicate that the charismatic, crowd-pleasing Manley, who stole Seaga's thunder by purging his party's left wing and improving his relations with the business establishment, would handily win any early election. Some analysts believe the hurricane's devastation may now present Seaga with a dramatic opportunity to rally the country behind him in a reconstruction effort. Manley was quick to recognize that the political climate had changed radically overnight. Said he, after rushing to Kingston last week: "All politics are being put aside. There is not time to deal in partisan issues in this emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamaica: A Decade Lost in a Day | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...scrawny, pig-tailed brunet at the 1972 Munich Games who, with her double-jointed contortions and infectious grin, convinced us that human hearts beat within the bodies of robotic Soviet athletes. Four years later at the Montreal Games, it was a long-limbed brooding Rumanian, Nadia Comaneci, who stole hearts by posting the first perfect 10s ever in Olympic gymnastics competition. Then in Los Angeles in 1984, American Mary Lou Retton bounced + into our living rooms with her big vault and still bigger smile, assuring her place in the pantheon of gymnastics greats and on boxes of Wheaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Sprite Fight | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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