Word: deerfields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were that Michael was fresh out of challenges, having won his third straight N.B.A. title, and that he wanted to get his family away from the limelight after the murder of his father. But during the press conference that day at the Berto Center, the Bulls' training facility in Deerfield, Illinois, Jordan surmised that he might return "if the urge comes back, if the Bulls will have me and David Stern lets me back in the league." Sometimes a Freudian slip is just a Freudian slip, but why would the commissioner have a say as to when Jordan could come...
...conservatism may have been imbibed together with his mother's milk, but Wasinger came into his own at Harvard. At public school in Kansas, he was quit and kept a low profile, and in two years at Deerfield Academy he concentrated on academics and getting into Harvard...
...belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...
Anthony Knighton has only vague memories of beatings by his father, a roofer who now lives in Deerfield Beach. His sharpest memories of childhood are of neglect more than fear. After his mother died when he was three, Knighton, the youngest of six children, shuttled among various relatives in Georgia and Florida. By the time he was 15, he had moved 30 times. "It seemed like nobody cared about me," he says, "so I guessed I had to do for myself." Joyce Moore, 27, a cousin who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, recalls that "people would say he could come...
Knighton never had much chance of being rescued, even if someone had bothered to try. By the time he entered sixth grade, he had attended seven schools. Frank Scalise, director of guidance counseling at Deerfield Beach Middle School, said Knighton came to class only 12 days that year. Truant officers were dispatched to find him, but the family had no address. "He wasn't in school long enough for anybody to get next to him, help him or counsel him," says Scalise. "Then he dropped out, and we never saw him again...