Word: craned
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Meanwhile, Republican Joseph D. Malone '78 lived up to his billing and defeated Democrat William F. Galvin in the face for state treasurer, putting the office in Republican hands after 26 years under the control of Robert Q. Crane...
...claim to have restored law-and-order in Kuwait, has introduced summary trial and execution for looters. Hamza Hendawi, a Reuters correspondent who escaped from Kuwait last week, reports that as a warning to thieves, Iraqi forces strung up the body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods. According to the Washington Post, the officer may actually have been punished for leading a dissident group...
Keverian, who has served in the House for 24 years and has been speaker since 1985, will be trying to win an office ccupied for the last 25 years by Robert Q. Crane. Crane's tenure, which saw the successful establishment of the state lottery, has been plagued by controversy and accusations of patronage...