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...They just seemed to fall apart," Rice said of the Catamounts. "We seemed to find holes easy and--bam--it was over...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Men's Lacrosse Tops 16th-Ranked Vermont, 10-7 | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...been busy this year fighting Bam-Bam and Dino...

Author: By G.k. Wenceslas, | Title: Intimations of Crimson Munificence | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...Most of them occur within 15 seconds, and it's not a situation where the perpetrator stakes out the victim for several days and plans the crime. They're standing on a street corner, and there's someone with the windows down, and they're vulnerable, and bam! -- it happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell on Wheels | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear the room," he says. Returning the gun to the canvas bag, he hurried back to his room, paused briefly to consider a hiding place, and then slid the weapon under his mattress before joining his parents for dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...broken, so I got a good price," the 17-year-old says proudly. He doesn't shoot birds anymore, but he fires an occasional salvo into the night sky around Omaha. "Sometimes I just feel like busting it, you know. I just want to pull the trigger and bam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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