Word: abductors
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Searchers, who suspected this time that the abductor was Bicycle Bill, combed the area for five days without finding a trace of man or girl. Then, while helping to scour a rocky ridge, FBI Agent Terry Anderson, 42, spotted one of Hollenbaugh's dogs, followed it -and was shot dead. More bullets fired from the underbrush killed one tracking German shepherd that lunged after the fugitive, and wounded the dog's partner. When Hollenbaugh and Peggy were spotted moving away from the scene shortly afterward, the authorities mounted the biggest man hunt in Pennsylvania's history...
...action begins. Boy must get girl, lose girl, and get her back; or, in the metaphor of the play, the wall must be destroyed, be reconstructed, and finally be surmounted. To end the feud and crush the wall, the hire the Narrator, who is now a "Professional Abductor" known as El Gallo (he carries a card). The rape is a grand success (that is, it is a magnificent failure) and the act closes with the wall dismantled, and the families united in bliss, apparently about to live happily ever after...
From New York to Los Angeles and from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
...letter he dropped in his flight was found in the street. The police gave the press the text of it. The sinister politeness of the abductor's letter, which requested the sum of $100,000, made newspaper readers' flesh creep...
Wild and hair-raising had been the abductor's "charming supervision." Once, on his headlong drive through the high Sierras, the car had plunged over a 40-foot embankment. Clambering back with the child, he seized at gun's point the next car that came along the highway. Miraculously unharmed, Marc was back in his mother's arms that evening...