Word: combes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week. Said Baker: "We gave them ten years of income tax returns, personal worth statements, personal history, medical records and incredible amounts of evidence. I paid Arthur Andersen [a major accounting firm] almost $10,000 to get that financial stuff up. It was gone over with a fine-tooth comb. We had follow-up questions for weeks and written explanations of particular transactions. Both Ford and Reagan did that...
...wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back with some teeth knocked out will one day be blocked in, assuming the cranes persist. Dallas leaders, boosters to their marrow, want the world to know this. They hope the Republican National Convention next week will give them the stage to get out the message. That message-Dallas...
...when was the last time you saw soft-drink vendors in the end zone of the home of the Los Angeles Raiders playing football with the only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...
...North Carolina, a movie crew builds an entire replica of an elaborate 250-year-old Southern mansion-and proceeds to burn it to the ground. Bands of talent scouts comb through used-car lots from Montana to Kentucky in search of their newest star-to-be: a 1958 Plymouth Fury...
Last week lawmen were searching for leads and suspects in the grisly slayings near Kilgore (pop. 11,000), an affluent town 100 miles east of Dallas. Officials were so stumped that Rusk County Sheriff Mike Strong brought in two psychics to comb the oilfield where the victims were found for any clues to the puzzle. Ballistic and autopsy reports showed that two guns had been used to fire eleven bullets into the five bodies. Some $2,000 was missing from the restaurant cash register, and jewelry, billfolds, purses and other valuables had been taken from the victims...