Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four other novels about the man, is a flip, middleaged, not too successful private investigator from Boston. He has style though and, rarer yet, compassion and a moral code. Asked by a Massachusetts millionaire to track down the gang of crazies who killed his wife and daughters with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members of the so-called Liberty group, an anti-Communist...
Spagnola--who had not yet caught a pass on the day--then set and lofted a perfect bomb to Krystiniak at the 40. It wasn't even a footrace as the big receiver loped past Potysman into the endzone...
Earlier in the week, grounds personnel noticed burns in the turf around the 50-yard line. While replacing the area with sod, they discovered a wire leading into the ground and contacted University police, who called the bomb squad...
Joyce stopped at the stadium while the bomb squad was there and wondered "what everyone was doing around the thing if there was a bomb in there," he said...
...buildings of the world." Yet its architect, a Roman Catholic named Giles Scott, was a 22-year-old unknown when he chosen from among 102 competitors in 1903. Later Scott go on to design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World War II. But the cathedral remained his masterpiece, a modern vision of Gothic that is uncluttered and open. "Don't let your eyes dwell on the soaring arches or tracery of windows," he told visitors. "Look at my spaces." Scott, later knighted...