Word: bore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ludicrously out of place, a white shrimp boat with canvas canopy chugging through the Gulf of Maine, 120 miles northeast of Boston. It flew no flag, bore no name and carried no fishing gear. The reason the craft had sailed so far north became immediately apparent once suspicious Coast Guard officers went aboard and sniffed the air: below deck were 859 burlap bales containing 25 tons of pot (estimated market value: $15 million...
...latter half of the 19th century, when industrialized Europe saw its steel industry sag because of overdevelopment and a lack of new markets. In search of new, lucrative fields, the steel and iron companies, the dominant industries in this era of unusually heavy industry, turned to armaments: large bore cannons, machine guns, steel-plated ships and a wide assortment of modernized rifles...
With that, New York detectives went to Berkowitz's apartment house, and they found his car parked handily in front. Peering inside, they spied a rifle butt protruding from an Army duffel bag in the back seat and a note on the front seat. It bore the highly distinctive hand printing of the .44-cal. killer's letters to police and Breslin. A dozen officers staked out the car and the building, while a search warrant was sought...
...matters." She is also the No. 2 leader and Berg's designated successor. A tall and glamorous figure with waistlong chestnut hair, Queen Rachel has been with the Children since they began in 1968. At one point she lived with a disciple named Samson and bore him a son when she was 16 years old, but denies claims by defectors that she cohabited with Moses David for a couple of years. In 1973 she married another Mo disciple named Emanuele Canevaro, 35, who also happened to be the Italian Duke of Zoagli and Castelvari. The duke has welcomed...
...publisher to issue a different snippet of the novel. The threat of lawsuits would thus have been spread evenly around the industry-and few readers, forced to put the novel together through separately published installments, would have had the patience or the cash to discover what an overwritten bore The Public Burning really...