Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought a lot about that. I know that if I hadn't been able to walk into a pawnshop and buy a handgun as easily as I did, I wouldn't have robbed that bank. That applies to just about everybody in this prison who ever held up anybody. Nobody robs a place with a knife or a can of Mace. I was 19, an eighth-grade dropout. If I'd known that things weren't as helpless as I thought they were, that would have stopped me. I wouldn't have felt so frustrated...
...distinct impression, however, that I did not fit the mode of this particular sample. The students and clientele alike dressed in a manner that spoke of serious money and, in the former's case, aspirations for imminent adulthood. The program was filled with advertisements for retirement communities. I hadn't brought along a folding beach chair. To make matters worse, I have no gold-sporting cousin named Morry...
...make the newspaper." Bonnie patrols Benson with a police scanner, banking on her belief that mothers still enjoy some diplomatic immunity on the streets. "If I won a million dollars tomorrow, I'd buy a few buses, fill them with kids and flee Omaha," she says. Flee where? "I hadn't thought of that," she responds...
...homosexual," he read from his paper. "Yes," answered Gorelick, that would trigger the presumption. "I am a lesbian," Nunn intoned. "Yes." "I am bisexual," said Nunn, who once fired two staff members for being gay, claiming they were security risks. "Yes." Finally, Nunn sprung one Gorelick hadn't expected. "I have a homosexual orientation," he said. Gorelick hesitated. Homosexual "orientation" was exactly what the new regulations tolerated in a military man or woman; admitting to it, however, was not. Yes, she agreed, even that statement would probably end its speaker's military career...
...time. He would write down the dream and how he felt during it, to see where this madness was coming from." It was self- therapy, she says; only the police "took it upon themselves to believe that they were things he wanted to do, or had done and just hadn't been caught." In that way, "they lit the fire of the people that lit the fire to my father's house...