Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although his disclosures may eventually help close up to 23 outstanding cases, few authorities credited Bundy with more than a last-ditch effort to delay his execution. Said Florida Governor Bob Martinez: "For him to be negotiating for his life over the bodies of victims is despicable...
...Purdy used or, failing that, some other semiautomatic paramilitary weapon. (His gun was actually an AKS, a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the fully automatic Soviet AK-47, though many gun dealers and users call both versions AK-47s.) At B & B Sales in North Hollywood, owner Bob Kahn spent much of Thursday frantically phoning suppliers to replenish his sold-out stocks. "We're in a frenzy," he said. Kahn assured customers that 50 AK-47 look-alikes would arrive on Friday, but some buyers were in no mood to wait. Jay Montoya, a Los Angeles salesman who had already...
...front of the Ralphola Taylor Community Center in the tough Newfield district of Bridgeport, Conn., Bob Doss gazes down at a slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy basketball team. "Not a pastoral setting," says the 6-ft. 6-in. Doss, 40, who grew up in a Bridgeport housing project. "But then, we're not a pastoral academy...
What makes Bob run? Partly it's real-life Rabbit Angstrom anguish over his own flunked future. A high school basketball star with genuine pro prospects, Doss entered Connecticut's Fairfield University on a full scholarship. Academic disaster: he lasted two semesters...
Joan Bonvincini, head coach of women's basketball at perennial power California State, Long Beach, likes Upward Bound's results. "Bob Doss gets into college inner-city kids who wouldn't ordinarily make it," she says. Chris Weller, the University of Maryland's head coach, agrees: "Upward Bound is simply outstanding...