Word: pawnshop
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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...
...scene is the interior of a cluttered Chicago pawnshop--filled with junk, assorted gewgaws, and three junky (and equally disposable) characters. Set designer Janie Fliegel makes intelligent use of the small stage, using hanging lamps and exposed air conditioning vents to delineate the space of the shop...
Cavalry and armored divisions were shipping out from Fort Hood, Texas. A lawyer in nearby Killeen executed wills and powers of attorney free of charge. A pawnshop announced it was willing to hold items for a year without charge to soldiers going to the gulf. In Memphis a radio station sponsored an "Iraq-no- phobia" gasoline sale in which a service station, its attendants dressed like Arabs, offered gas for 50 cents...