Word: ann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick study and moved nimbly. At 21, he graduated from the University of Texas law school. That same year he enlisted in the Army, later flew 50 missions over Europe as a bomber pilot, and was shot down twice. While on leave, he married a Texas model, Beryl Ann; they have three children. Mustered out as a major at 24, Bentsen was elected the youngest county judge in Texas. In 1948, he ran successfully for the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the youngest member. He impressed a fellow Texan, Speaker Sam Rayburn, who included Bentsen in his after-hours bourbon...
Along with virtue, miracles were required, and the most celebrated visitors in Rome for the canonization were two persons whose cures, attributed to the heavenly intercession of Mother Seton, had been decreed miracles. One was Mrs. Ann O'Neill Hooe, 27, of Severn, Md., who recovered from childhood leukemia 23 years ago. The other was Florida's Carl Kalin, 73, a convert from Lutheranism only last year, who was cured of a rare brain disease in 1963. The third case involved a nun, since deceased, who had recovered from cancer of the pancreas...
...about loss of innocence, then. Gifford's quest for the answer only convinces him of the fragility of the order he reveres; he sees that the lies of urban civilization will continue to make incursions into Lymington of a more destructive nature than the simple murder of Kimberly Ann Regan. Shopping malls, vinyl tombstones, and seaside development corporations are confounding the natural beauty of his town in more lasting ways than the incidental dumping of a bloody corpse on its sacred soil...
This loss of innocence, while moving, is not believable. Gifford is like a frail matchgirl amid the mean cusses who populate Kimberly Ann Regan's wretched past...
...explains, "they wouldn't want us to interfere. Not even the kid." Gifford responds to this fractured and isolationist image by blindly attempting to establish feeling contact with some of the warped souls he encounters in this "odyssey," as he calls it. It is not enough to see Kimberly Ann Regan's girl-friend cry and lament her own suffering over a pastromi sandwich during lunch-hour, then leave her for other witnesses. He must call her back, days later, past 3 a.m. in the morning, to find out how she's doing, and attempt stubbornly and hopefully to find...