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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul R. Mow Aiea, Hawaii I do not kill, rape, steal or cheat and try not to lie, but I do read Playboy and watch Three's Company. Does Falwell expect me to burn in hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1981 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...dead are dumped in trashed buildings. Some of Baby Love's friends did not live through the summer. A cheeky dude like him risks death or injury every time he steps outside. Being small does not help. He was always getting beaten up until he learned to steal. Now he can bribe would-be assailants with reefer. He sometimes spends $20 a day on the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

Baby Love sneers. He stands up. "I'm goin' get all I wants," he says, "and I don' care if I gotta steal to get it. I'm not afraid of doin' time so long as I kin do it fast." Then he goes up to the clubhouse with Daddy Rich. He lies on a mattress puffing on an El Productocigar hollowed out and filled with chiba chiba. There is a bottle of 150-proof Bacardi rum by his side. The cassette player throbs and, for a moment, Baby Love is warm and secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

Baby Love rebelled against his mother when she started sleeping with other men. He was only five. She says, "My Curtis steals anything he can get. It is my fault. He saw me steal a woman's pocketbook. It had a lot of money in it. Curtis, he gets high on money now. It's all he wants, that an' reefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brooklyn: A Wolf in $45 Sneakers | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, think again about that new china the President and Nancy are getting for the White House. In 1968 the Johnsons (also with private money) purchased 2,200 pieces of china for $80,000, which in today's dollars is $210,000. The Reagans got a steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Modest Millionaire | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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