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Word: bubba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Judge Eidson made those rulings, a gunman wearing a black wig broke into the Davis mansion. He wounded Priscilla and a friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, and murdered her lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr, and her daughter by a previous marriage, twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn. Four hours later, police arrested Davis at his girlfriend's home and charged him with being the gunman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...testimony against her husband. He was acquitted and released on $325,000 bail to await trial for the other shootings. But before the second trial could start, McCrory went to the FBI with his tale of the hit list. It included, besides Judge Eidson, the wounded family friend, "Bubba" Gavrel, who at the first trial had fingered Davis as the gunman, and Judge Tom Cave, who had originally denied him bail and thus forced him to spend 15 months in jail. And, of course, Priscilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Do You Want Next? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Spending $500 million to expand in the beer business, Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beer: Big Battles Are Brewing | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Once he barreled across the scrimmage line, all 6 ft. 8 in., 285 lbs. of him, as the crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left dead. Family Friend Gus ("Bubba") Gavrel, who showed up inopportunely at the height of the carnage, was wounded; Priscilla was shot in the chest but managed to escape. Four hours later, police arrested Cullen at the home of his girl friend, Karen Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Murder in Texas | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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