Word: demon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mushrooms stumbled upon a human skull. During the next two days police investigators found the rest of that skeleton, along with the remains of three other women. The grisly discoveries brought to 20 the number of women from the Seattle area presumed to be victims of a mysterious demon dubbed the Green River Killer...
...team's designated hitter for the contest led the charge with a 3 for 4 performance as well as scoring three runs. Sophomore Judy Zachariasen also provided power hitting two doubles after coming in as a pinch hitter Sackaroff who at shortstop isn't really expected to be demon offensively, came through with two hits, including a bunt single...
...infused, at the start, with a real sense of fright: the noonday demon, as it were, lurking in the woodpile. Surls' huge wraiths posture and writhe on point with a sort of evilly humorous grace; they summon up nursery horrors, tree demons, swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty...
Even in the good years, Western Europe exploited and ignored its minorities, but the long-running recession seems to have stirred a particularly malignant demon in the Continent's psyche. In France last month, a dispute over extensive layoffs at a Peugeot factory outside Paris degenerated into three days of racial violence that left 120 people injured. The clashes pitted striking workers (mostly immigrants) against those still holding jobs (mostly Frenchmen). More than 20 immigrants have been killed or wounded in other incidents in France in the past year. At least seven, including a ten-year-old boy, were...
...suits and scuffed shoes that might have been more appropriate for a distracted economics professor rushing to class. Yet after 20 years with the same company, Morgan left. He says he looked at himself in the mirror after accepting the job, smiled and thought out loud, "Why, you little demon...