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Word: guns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sinclair said the man walked through the store and picked up a sweater. When she asked him if he wished to purchase it, she said, the man pointed at her what appeared to be a gun beneath his brown corduroy jacket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...pointed the gun at me and said 'give me your cash or I'll blow your brains out,'" Sinclair said. The gun was completely concealed beneath the man's jacket, she said. "It could have been his finger for all I know," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funnelled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. It is a dollar that can be spent on buying bullets to put into a Mac-10 machine pistol or into an AK-47 sub-machine gun. And people should realize that...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Joining the War on Drugs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...cassette of Top Gun was the first film to carry a commercial plug (Diet Pepsi was the sponsor), but since then the tapes of a dozen or so other movies have hawked everything from candy bars (Moonstruck, Dirty Dancing) to Jeeps (Platoon). Though the just released cassette of Rain Man sells for no less than $89.95, its distributors, capitalizing on the vintage Buick that is featured in the film, put in an ad for -- you guessed it -- Buick. The otherwise splendid new release of The Wizard of Oz starts off with a one-minute Downy commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hoots And Howls at Ads | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...local businesses, which include everything from pizza parlors to car washes; these ads are sometimes in addition to those already inserted by the studios. With the same kind of self-righteous growl a dog utters when a rival approaches his dinner bowl, Paramount, which started the phenomenon with Top Gun, has brought suit in a federal court in Wichita to stop such Johnny-come-latelies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hoots And Howls at Ads | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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