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Word: thefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armed robber yesterday held up the Serendipity clothing store on Mass Ave., marking the third armed theft in Harvard Square in the past two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...taut and stirring as A Theft was, The Bellarosa Connection is even better. Bellow here stands squarely on the ground that he conquered long ago: the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America. Bellow's narrator, a man in his early 70s, never reveals his own name, but he engagingly -- and a bit smugly -- displays the trappings of his success: "I force myself to remember that I was not born in a Philadelphia house with 20- foot ceilings but began life as the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey." He had earned his mansion, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...door to the suite was unlocked at the time of the theft, the students said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Residents Report Suite Robbery; Watch, Cash, Jacket, Coop Bag Missing | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...1960s he and his wife Joy gained worldwide fame from her best-selling books, like Born Free and Living Free, which recounted their adventures raising captive or orphaned young lions to return to the wild. She was murdered in 1980 by a servant who had been accused of theft and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya Murder in the Game Reserve | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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