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Word: burglarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across the U.S., companies that offer security devices report booming sales in both low-tech paraphernalia (Mace, burglar bars, door alarms) and high-tech apparatus (video doorbells, motion-detection devices). Meanwhile, existing forms of high technology are being pressed into the services of security. Cellular phones are popular not only with businessmen but also with people who fear being stranded because of auto trouble or attacked while on the road. As their cost goes down, many are buying them for emergency use only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in the Safety Zone | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Louisiana man was acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Japanese exchange student who came to his front door by mistake. Rodney Peairs said he mistook Yoshihiro Hattori for a burglar when the youth ran toward him. The verdict provoked an outcry in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest May 23-29 | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...with sophomore sensation Scott Bacigalupo in goal for the Tigers, Harvard had as much chance scoring a goal as a burglar has of getting in Fort Knox...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Tigers Trounce Crimson, 16-5 | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

SHEREE WILLIAMS AND HER HUSBAND LEROY LYONS came home to a scene of unimaginable horror. While they were away for 45 minutes, all seven of their children, left unattended, had perished in a swift, smoky blaze that gutted their two-story house on Detroit's east side. Iron burglar bars on the windows had prevented the youngsters, ranging in age from seven months to nine years, from escaping. In New York City two children, ages seven and five, died when a fire broke out in the basement of an unlicensed day-care center whose owner had stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Alone Is No Place to Be | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...upscale resort island; he's a habitual jailbird, scruffy and not quite bright. Andrew (Samuel L. Jackson) definitely does belong here; he's rich, famous and accomplished. The problem is that he's black, which means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Mar. 1, 1993 | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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