Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the world beyond the Hudson River in the famous Saul Steinberg poster about New York City. It hardly exists. Adoption is an option, of course, but that is not the way of some baby boomers. They want happiness now -- on their own terms -- and if they have to steal from the next generation to have it, they will...
...down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...
Gentry and Leite also have to deal with pedestrians and motorists who often knock down and steal the cones they use to block the streets. "Kids knock the cones down and take them away all the time," said Gentry. "We easily have to buy 100 cones in a year...
...Harris' last meal was two large pizzas, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a six-pack of Pepsi, a bag of jelly beans, a pack of Camel cigarettes. Junk food was a sort of surreal motif in the case. In 1978 Harris murdered two teenage boys in order to steal their car for a bank robbery, and, having killed them, he finished the burgers they had been eating. (My theory is that Harris would be alive today if he had not eaten the burgers. That detail must have struck the jurors as the cool, novelistic touch of Satan...
...those seven goals weren't enough as the Crimson (4-7, 1-4 Ivy) dropped the contest , 8-7, in overtime after a fourth-quarter rally to steal a lead that Massachusetts (7-2) had held for the entire game...