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Word: dianas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diana Daye Humphries, 16, explained things to the Houston police one afternoon last week. Her stomach was upset, so she stayed home that day from Reagan Senior High School, where her 142 I.Q. and hard study made her a teacher's pet even though shyness kept her from being as popular with the boys

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Pain of Boredom | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Forest section of town, a standard three-bedroom unit furnished with the standard new appliances from the combined incomes of her father, an oilfield-equipment salesman drawing disability pay from the Navy, and her mother, an airlines reservation clerk. But whatever it was they thought they were working for, Diana found it boredom on the installment plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Pain of Boredom | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Diana got out her father's old rifle, bought a box of .22 short shells at the Seven-Eleven Store around the corner, methodically test-fired it into her mattress. Then she went to her father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Pain of Boredom | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Pain of Boredom | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Born. To Diana Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 31, TV and cinemactress, and Mortimer Hall, 34, son of New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff and president of Los Angeles radio station KLAC: their first child, a son (he has another son by Cinemactress Ruth Roman); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Matthew Wells. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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