Word: bridget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiina Bougas defeated: Bridget McCarthy, Colby, 6-1, 6-0, first round; Barbara Mills, UMass, 6-2, 6-1, second round; Debbie O'Halloran, BU, 6-2, 6-0, third round; Marcia Barker, UVM, 6-0, 6-3, quarterfinals; Pam Bankdlyer, Dartmouth, 6-1, 6-0, semifinals; Robin Schreider, Curry, 6-1, 6-0, finals...
...singles, favored Bougas defeated Bridget McCarthy of Colby, 6-1, 6-0, and Barbara Mills of UMass, 6-2, 6-1, to advance to the third round...
Five years ago, when Boston Policeman John O'Brien was rounding the corner of Brighton's Commonwealth Avenue and Washington Street at 10 m.p.h. in broad daylight, he lost control of his police car and struck an elderly woman named Bridget Neville. Six months in the hospital and $32,000 in medical bills later, Neville, now 83, won a belated jury award of $103,253. Fair enough...
...years, 38 states and the Federal Government have abolished or modified the doctrine, allowing citizens to haul various governments into court as they would a private party. State courts and legislatures have largely abolished sovereign immunity for municipalities, too. But Massachusetts has retained it, and at the time of Bridget Neville's accident the city provided only $15,000 worth of maximum liability coverage for each of its police officers. So O'Brien, 65 and recently retired, was threatened with the possible auction of his sole significant asset-an unmortgaged $18,700 house-in order to help...
When he was 16, Bill, the youngest, was sent to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas. Bridget suffered from ever worsening epilepsy and committed suicide at 21. Maggie, who had always seemed so strong, may also have committed suicide during the tryout of a play she loathed. Stomach problems forced Leland to give up most of his pleasures ten years before he died in 1971, and toward the end his once active mind was reduced and eroded by strokes. Brooke, who was on the cover of LIFE when she was 15, is now 39. She has already had two divorces...