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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's foreign ministers prepared last week for a May 11 conference that would presumably lead to the summit, was firmness against Soviet aggression in Germany or anywhere else. But the guide line of U.S. aims and ambitions, as measured by the human spirit since man saw Prometheus steal fire from the gods, was perhaps better characterized by 1) a mellow old man who had spent his life seeking new frontiers of truth and order, and 2) seven young men on the threshold of high adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Spirit of Prometheus | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn't pretend he was nuts to stay out of the Army? I told them I steal for a living. They thought I was crazy but I wasn't. I was telling them the "truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering the Mob | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Rebels Steal Plane...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Ike Sees Republican Win in '60, Backs Morton for Chairmanship; Haiti Charges Reds With Hijack | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...movement, speech or even use of the w.c. -the cramped loft thrums with a threat as foreboding from within as from without. Young Anne wakes from a nightmare with terrified screams; greedy old Van Daan. whose wife and teen-age son share the flat with the Franks, tries to steal a crust of the communal bread; the dentist bolts for the door when the phone in the deserted office below jangles noisily. Yet no one cracks so completely that the cement of their absolute dependence on one another cannot repair the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...year-old Cambridge youth, picked up by University police yesterday in Widener Library on suspicion of intent to steal a book, was later charged by Cambridge police with the unarmed robbery of a coat and wallet from a Law School student in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Youth Charged in Theft Confesses Beating of Law Student | 3/17/1959 | See Source »

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