Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grant allegedly killed her mother Dorothy Mayfield by bludgeoning her with a lead crystal candlestick. Her attorneys argued that she had suffered years of emotional abuse while living with her mother after the death of her father...
Grant's crime was particularly gruesome. She bludgeoned her mother to death, striking her in the head 13 times with a lead crystal candlestick and crushing her skull. Thereafter, she and her boyfriend mutilated the body, inserting a knife into the dead woman's neck in an effort to make her death appear to be a suicide, and nearly severing her spinal cord...
...Codex says. And he rattles off the secret numbers for Candlestick Park, the Kingdome, the Meadowlands...
...took the Crimson an inning-and-a-half to adjust to a harsh and cold 30-mile-per-hour wind that was blowing in from right field--a wind that made Soliders Field feel and look like San Francisco's Candlestick Park...
WHILE THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS WERE IN THE ARIzona desert working off their winter flab, back home in Candlestick Park a little bit of history was unfolding. Five hundred candidates turned up for open auditions to become the team's new stadium announcer, but none of the dozens of experienced sports broadcasters vying for the plum platform got the nod. Instead the Giants will start a rookie -- a legal secretary from Walnut Creek, California. On opening day, April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game...