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Word: gunpoint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: "Beam Me Up" Scottie Pippen OCCUPATION: Trash-talking hoopster BEST PUNCH: Hardly contrite, responded, "I wouldn't give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint...If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry fat butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...mangoes and were on our way back to the bush when we met two rebels. They stopped us at gunpoint. They told us to drop the mangoes, and they tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...himself a few days before, he also boasted that he had a gun in his car. When an administrator took his keys and warned him that she would have to call the police, Furrow thrust a black-handled switchblade at her. It took a local cop three warnings at gunpoint before Furrow dropped the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Cambridge resident reported that two unknown males entered his home through the rear door. He was forced at gunpoint into his basement, where a friend from Roxbury was staying at the time. The suspects demanded money from the victims and threatened to shoot them. The suspects then left with some jewelry. Jonathan H. Esensten contributed to the reporting of this story...

Author: By Maria S. Shim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...houses ? were also spared by the rampaging Serb paramilitaries. Some individuals are alleged to have played a more actively violent role in the Serb campaign; others to have given the Serbs political support. Other Gypsies actually joined the KLA, although a number have subsequently complained of being forced at gunpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Ethnically Cleansed and Nowhere to Go | 7/8/1999 | See Source »

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