Word: dente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Skeptics insist the real problem with the law is that most criminals bypass gun shops in favor of underground dealers. ``It's easy for the criminal to get a gun,'' scoffs Dent Myers, who owns a Civil War surplus store in Kennesaw, Georgia, where the town council passed a law last year obliging every head of household to own a gun. ``They don't go to the store, because the waiting period for an illegal gun is about five minutes--or as long as it takes to open up a trunk...
...their views after years and years of being inculcated with prejudice. Racist messages are often communicated to people through their families, their communities or even society as a whole. One semester-long course, or even two or three such courses, will not succeed in erasing or even making a dent in racism...
...president Rudenstine today, and he's looking very well," Rowe said. "He told me that he'd made a sizable dent in his much postponed reading pile...
Right from the start we made a big dent...
While three-strikes laws falter, prevention puts a dent in crime...