Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...