Word: cinder
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...rancher who thinks himself God. Quinn taunts his victims by mailing them each their own photograph enclosed in a small, handcarved coffin. Then he kills them. One couple finds nine angry rattlesnakes under the frontseat of their car. A fire incinerates four others, their lone escape route sealed by cinder blocks. When a rancher named Clem Anderson gets his coffin in the mail, its meaning is clear. But after a few sleepless weeks, Clem forgets to worry. Authorities find his body lying in a ditch near his overturned jeep. A razorsharp wire strung between a tree and a telephone pole...
...golden boys (they're still practicing outside in LA) probably could have eaten MBTA cinder blocks and drunk from the Charles, and it still wouldn't have affected their performance much...
Duran, whose cinder-block style has earned him nicknames like "the Animal," was delighted with Leonard's tactics. With the champ always in range, the fierce Panamanian gladly accepted Leonard's lighter blows so he could get in some harder licks of his own. He staggered Leonard with an overhand right in the second round and landed a series of punishing shots in the third and fourth. Feinting and crouching to avoid Leonard's left, Duran muscled his opponent around the ring, charging like a bull at times...
...reprogrammed chip is high enough to make any parlor wood-pusher loosen his collar and roll up his sleeves, and it is the machine's distinctly machine-like speech that is the dazzling gimmick. Turn the doodad on, and it says, dropping each word like a cinder block, "I- am- Fidelity's - Chess - Challenger - your -computer - opponent." The speech is by no means as friendly and natural sounding as Speak & Spell's, but it is meant to intimidate adults, not encourage children. The voice has no great utility, except as a signal that the machine has finished...
...more earthly concern: whether the roof of an underground parking garage would collapse under the weight of viewers when an estimated 1.5 million people crowd Grant Park for the Pope's Mass. To show that the roof was safe, an engineering firm piled 430 tons of cinder blocks on it last week...