Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicious-looking bike comes in for repair or resale, the hotline will provide the shop owner with the proof necessary to nab the thief, and if the owner has his bill of sale, the bike will be returned," he said...
...greenroom without getting goosed or mugged. Today, says A Little Night Music's Hermione Gingold, "There are far less evil-looking people around." Two days later, an uptown precinct tried to persuade the visiting Moiseyev troupe of folk dancers that Central Park was safe. Not a bicycle thief was in sight when Patrolman Murray Trelford and eight of his colleagues challenged the 30 Russians to a Frisbee game on the Great Lawn. Then they all linked arms in a Russian folk dance. While a balalaika was strummed, Igor Moiseyev said, "Now we know the police are men with human...
...victor, K'ang-hsi tempered justice with shrewd compassion and love of discrimination. He changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...
...bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working full-time as a truck driver...
...league in five offensive categories: home runs (32), RBls (117), runs scored (99), game-winning hits (18) and "slugging percentage" -the production of extra-base hits (.531). He also managed to hit a very respectable .293, the tenth best A.L. average. On the base paths he is a daring thief, diving into bases to stretch singles to doubles or doubles to triples...