Word: thief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several members of the expedition theorized that the bronze "poor box" was cast away by a thief, angered by such a small haul...
...ignition locks of unattended cars. As a result, Chester Gorski of Rome, N.Y. has been ordered to pay $33,862 in damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from the ignition lock, and sped off at 70 m.p.h. Gorski insisted that he had hidden...
...presented himself as a monster with "a nose as big as a cannon and eyes as small as green peas"; one of his favorite images, which probably grew out of his regular disappointments in love and his otherwise suppressed resentment of women who had hurt him, was the "heart thief," depicted hanging from a gallows tree and clutching a human heart. The motif so obsessed him that he even worked it into a Christmas ornament of a masked dancer meant to be hung from a tree...
...push comes to shove, they don't care whether you're green or black or gray or what. They just go for the uniform." Both men have had close brushes with serious injury or worse. Messaros was stabbed in the hand last year by a young car thief. The year before, a man fired his .38 at the pair, but he missed...
...propaganda for the Arab cause. For example, the official radio broadcasts the song of a Soviet soldier who begs, "Oh, mother write me a letter to Egypt; we're going to be here for a while." But far different sentiments are circulating on tape. "Should I become a thief, a bandit, or maybe better, an anti-Semite?" asks a boy in one satiric song. "I know for a fact the Jews stole all last year's wheat harvest from the people," he says, repeating a characteristic fantasy of Soviet anti-Semites. Echoed in the song's last...