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Word: basement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beat a hasty retreat, postponing the investigation until the basement tenants came home and reported the break...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

...downstairs!" the lady shriked appearing again in her window. There was a lot of crashing around inside, and Whalen's flishlight beam shone out through the basement windows. One of them was broken. Someone had gotten, in, and appeared to have also gotten...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

...year-old youth who tried to force his way into her house. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young praised her action, declaring, "Every person has a right and an obligation to defend their own home." Daniel Kindred, 41, killed Ronnie Trapp, 19, when he saw Trapp climbing out of a basement window of the Kindred house. Last week Wayne County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Elliott Hall decided not to seek charges against Kindred, contending that the homeowner's retaliation was "perfectly justified." In the third episode, Ernest Leflore, 50, heard a man breaking into his home and shot him with a .357 magnum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up in Arms Over Crime | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...result, the museum's public exhibitions gradually declined. During World War II, the military moved into the museum building and set up a Japanese language instruction center. By 1948, the museum's collections had been stored away and nearly forgotten in the basement and the attic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lost Treasures Rediscovered | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

...scene was a basement lounge in St. John's Lutheran Church in McCandless, Pa. Ten clergy and five laity met last week around tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe for the second ecclesiastical trial in the history of the 23-year-old, 3 million-member Lutheran Church in America. Their verdict: the Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33, ex-pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Clairton, Pa., was to be defrocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Defrocking a Contentious Pastor | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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