Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murray also said she hoped her daughter would be left alone to heal in peace. "It's time for her to get some rest. I think she's had enough...
...seventh blockbuster, Sidney Sheldon has a great time inventing grisly ways of killing his characters. A Rumanian rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked...
...happened a year ago in the Chalbi Desert, in the Northern Frontier District. John Hall and his daughter Susan were camping in the open. It was 11 at night when the hyenas came, screaming and laughing, their eyes flashing in the moonlight. There were six or seven hyenas in the pack, and even after Hall opened up on them with his shotgun, they kept coming at him. Hall and his daughter raced for their vehicle, which was open at the sides, and still the hyenas came on, working as a pack, snapping hungrily. Hall plunged the vehicle at them repeatedly...
Readers of these books must be prepared for complications. The evidence against Bradfield and Smith was sufficient to convince two juries of their guilt. (Smith is also suspected of murdering his daughter and son-in-law, although their bodies have never been located.) But one is never quite certain of what actually happened. Both men maintain their innocence, even though Smith came close to boasting about the crime to a fellow inmate. Bradfield had a solid motive: $750,000 worth of insurance policies that Susan Reinert had taken out, naming him the beneficiary. (He had previously been convicted of stealing...
...been denied permission to leave the country on the grounds that he was engaged in classified work in the 1950s. After his wife's death in Washington last week, U.S. officials urged the Soviet Union, to no avail, to allow Meiman to attend her funeral and then join his daughter, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in Boulder...