Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stuff-A-Pumpkin's popularity has prompted an outbreak of plastic-bag thefts, leaves and all. A Houston family ended a string of such heists by coating the bags with grip-defying petroleum jelly. Benson Zinbarg, Sun Hill's president and founder, safeguards his own Stuff-A-Pumpkin by weighing it down with bricks...
...women has been raped, one in six by someone she knows. Between 3 million and 4 million women are beaten each year, 1 million so severely that they seek medical help. More than half of all homeless women are fleeing domestic violence. Think about that the next time a bag lady asks you for a quarter...
...Stubs pokes his head into the hospital room of five-year-old Dorothy. "I hope I'm not bothering you," he says before entering. At her bedside, he pulls several crumpled sheets of legal paper from his worn leather bag, digs for a pencil stub and begins his examination...
...Have you ever had a how-long-can-you-go-without-laughing test?" he asks Dorothy, continuing his routine examination. "No," she says, eyes widening. Stubs takes a large windup clock from his bag and lets it drop to the floor. Dorothy giggles. "You only lasted about four seconds," he says, feigning disappointment...
...couch, intent on a novel. Stubs asked gently, "Mind if I come in? I need to catch up on some paperwork." He sat on the couch and starting ripping sheets of legal paper off a pad, crumpling them up and stuffing them into his doctor's bag. He soon piqued the adults' curiosity. "Office work, you know," Stubs offered. "Who says clowns are just for kids?" the woman -- now all smiles -- said...