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Word: treeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accompanying the 1992 riots. Police chief Willie Williams instituted a dusk-to-dawn curfew and warned that looters would be prosecuted and jailed. Instead, in the first few | days crime dropped 80%. Maybe people were too awed to loot anything but grapefruits from public parking lots. There was a treeful right here at the mall, and the quake has shaken them down prematurely, brilliant yellow polka dots on a gray field. A family rushes to the lot and collects as many grapefruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Tales of the City | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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