Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began. This story began when he dropped his thesis in the grate. And what made him do that? It was his cockiness. He is a bit compulsive, as one of them says. Moira's telling him wait until morning. What, do you think someone's gonna come in and steal it? I mean, your arrogance about the importance of these pages that it can't wait until morning. His arrogance when he turns around to her and says, "Face it, Courtney, you just can't keep up with me. I didn't ask you to come along...
...that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told the writers, "it's an hommage...
Recent sting operations have slowed the Silicon Valley heists a bit but have shown few signs of stopping them. In campaigns with code names such as "Operation Gray Chip" and "Winter Sting," law-enforcement officers rounded up 43 suspects in January, including 13 who were caught while trying to steal more than $1 million worth of computer parts from an electronics warehouse. Officers seized a total of $2 million worth of chips and other computer equipment, together with nylon masks, duct tape, ropes, gloves, walkie-talkies and five loaded guns. But while 20 suspects were swiftly tried and convicted, most...
Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Rooney say the city provides ripe pickings for those seeking to steal two-wheelers...
...Harvard is 8-4 when it scores first, but only 3-13-1 when the opposition plates a runner first...Speed on the basepaths has certainly been lacking for Harvard. It has stolen only eight bases in 16 Ivy League games and 21 overall. The Crimson has only one steal in its last six games, and Harvard has failed to record a stolen base in 17 of its 29 games...Bernhard is the most bruised player on the team. He has been hit by a pitch 10 times--the rest of the squad has been hit a total...