Word: braced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy described how he frantically tried to open the door and how Mary Jo struggled to escape. But he could not recall how he got out of the car. Despite a brace on his back, he dove seven or eight times in a futile attempt to save Mary Jo. Then he made his way 1.2 miles back to the cottage...
...pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
CHRISTOPHER PORTERFIELD 373 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...different teams of lawyers, produced more than 8,000 pages of transcript and run up a probable $500,000 in costs-and the case for the defense has not yet begun. From the plaintiffs' side, at least, the cast is Dickensian: the suicide artist, the wronged daughter, a brace of crooked or bungling trustees and a villain-Machiavelli and Scrooge McDuck rolled up in one banker's suit...
...more dramatic than accurate. No one seriously believes that the popular physician beat a baby to death. Nor does anyone take literally the charges that four of Edelin's colleagues exhumed human bodies to get tissues for a series of studies conducted at the hospital. Yet in a brace of cases that could have far-reaching implications for research as well as women's rights, all stand indicted. Edelin, who performed a demonstrably legal abortion, is accused of manslaughter; his fellow physicians are charged with violating an 1814 law against grave robbing...