Word: alamo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a producer on his own. "I've fallen in love with producing and plan to make it my life's work," he announced while still a senior at Collegiate. During the 1970s and early '80s, he produced movies (The Blockhouse, The Border) and plays (Ladies of the Alamo). Some shows featured such stars as Peter Sellers and Jack Nicholson, but none achieved much critical or financial success. Bronfman was a bit luckier in a fling at songwriting. Dionne Warwick recorded a love song he wrote, Whisper in the Dark. Efer "eloped" (his word) with Sherry Brewer, a black model...
...their rental car from the airport last Tuesday, they mapped out their route in advance. They kept to the main road. They stored their valuables out of sight, drove at a brisk pace, and Kathrin even spent the ride reading from a safety brochure (distributed in seven languages by Alamo Rent...
...murder of a German tourist in April sent out global shock waves -- and sent Florida officials scrambling to shore up their image as the Sunshine | State. Driving in from the airport in an Alamo rental car, Barbara Meller- Jensen had taken the wrong turn and ended up in one of Miami's poorer neighborhoods. When she felt her car hit from behind, she got out to see what had happened. Then, as her six-year-old son watched, thieves beat her, robbed her, climbed back into their car, gunned their engine and drove over her head. To counter the impression...
...losing battle Restic is fighting, a one-man Alamo garrison. It's part of the reason Restic's getting out after 23 years...
When Davy Crockett and the hundred-odd defenders of the Alamo lined up against Santa Ana and his 5,000 hired guns, the outcome was pretty much guaranteed: Davy got slaughtered...