Word: pilfering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
...many of South Korea's poor, stealing from the U.S. Army is a trade and a livelihood. They steal from PXs and officers' homes, raid railroad yards, pilfer from trucks on the move, and diligently bleed oil pipelines (last year's losses were 1,500,000 gallons, enough to carry one tank company 22,400 miles). But after U.S. soldiers on guard duty, potshotting at intruders, killed several innocent bystanders, General George H. Decker ordered: "No more shooting." The thieving went on, the 40,000 men of South Korea's police force seemed unable or unwilling...
...Russians do not appear to be developing Albania as a base for war. According to the best available information, they are not building a submarine base in Albania, as has been rumored. Russians are there first of all to pilfer the country, taking out oil, chrome and other minerals...
...Niff expects that the new undergraduate library may have larger clientele this year because of the draft exemption rule for students in the upper half of their class. Scholars in the upper half of their class. Scholars attempting to pilfer books for longer study however, will be confronted again with last year's fine of 75 cents per late book...
...common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...