Word: arsons
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...private pain of the Dahmer (pronounced DAY-mer) family was also a national tragedy. Vernon, a prosperous businessman, headed the Hattiesburg branch of the N.A.A.C.P., so the Klan targeted him with a "No. 3" and a "No. 4": shorthand for arson and murder. At his funeral, thousands of admirers poured into Shady Grove Baptist Church. President Johnson sent Ellie Dahmer a telegram mourning her husband and calling for a federal investigation...
...most important aspect of the weekend, however, is the opportunity for expression the weekend gives to artists within the Harvard community. Events this year range from On Thin Ice and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra to "Unintentional Arson" and "Drill Performance and Trick Rifle Maneuvers...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) may choose to ask for an arson investigation, but authorities yesterday were not able to say whether one had been initiated. HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara was not available for comment yesterday...
...also imagine her response to pro-life rhetoric being used to justify an average of one clinic bombing or arson per month--sometimes the same clinics Sanger helped found--and the murder of six clinic staff members, the attempted murder of 15 others, and assault and battery against 104 more. In each case, the justification is that potential fetal life is more important than a living woman's health or freedom...
...also plays the boy's father and Francie himself in the film's last scene) in the wryly humorous tone of a man looking back self-indulgently on a mischievous boyhood that came out all right in the end. But the personal history he recounts includes hugely destructive vandalism, arson, murder and a descent into decades of madness. The latter encompasses visions of the Virgin Mary (Sinead O'Connor, no less) appearing to him looking like a gaudy lithograph and behaving like a seductress; of priests looming up as giant science-fiction insects; and of his town's being destroyed...