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Word: steals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watching the chaos around him. More than 60 children, abandoned by their parents, fight, scream and run through the empty corridors of the three- story school. Though he is not on the faculty -- most of the instructors have fled -- Imamajovic says he is their mentor. "I teach them to steal and not to share," he says. "I teach them to survive. The city may die, but some of them will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...sleeve of the teacher's shirt. Just above the right wrist is a large tattoo of a spider, the mark of a criminal. The children are afraid of him. But, says one, "at least he helped. The other teachers did nothing but wait for the aid shipments, then steal the food and go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...back tears. Virtually every one of the children has been robbed or brutalized by the others in the corridors. Several of the older girls say the boys have raped them. Most have sealed their rooms to protect themselves from the others. During the day they will play together and steal together, but in the terror of the night, they often turn on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damp Fireworks | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...applied to West European countries for asylum -- 438,000 in Germany alone. "I risked my life to get here," says Anton Lupu, a 33-year-old Romanian painter who made it across the border from Poland and has applied for asylum in Eisenhuttenstadt, Germany. "We didn't come to steal, only to work respectably. The difference between Germany and Romania is the difference between heaven and earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Slams the Door | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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