Word: elwood
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...insists that the preponderance of evidence points to a drifter named Ottis Elwood Toole as his son's murderer. In one confession, Toole said he decapitated Adam with a machete and placed the head on the floor of his white Cadillac, which he then drove to a secluded spot off the Florida turnpike. He threw the head off a small bridge. Walsh asserts he even took police investigators to the location. Toole, however, stopped cooperating when, Walsh writes, the police became verbally abusive; he recanted. It might have been possible to run DNA tests to determine whether the blood...
...mean? The hometown boy of romantic comedy, goshing and gollying his way into Margaret Sullavan's heart in The Shop Around the Corner? Or the tortured Capra hero whose trust in American values was tested past all endurance, till he tumbled close to madness? Or the pixilated Elwood P. Dowd of Harvey, his best friend an invisible rabbit? Or the vengeful loner of the Anthony Mann westerns of the '50s--taut epics like Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call...
...ABOUT former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell [Cover Story, July 10]. He is witty, charming, handsome, distinguished, sensitive to others, eloquent, lavishly talented and possessed of a great sense of humor. He is our Mr. America. Who can find a reason not to support Powell for President? ELWOOD WATSON Orono, Maine...
...have begun to imagine a postquake L.A. that would have room for skyscrapers and swimming pools, that would have people off freeways, on mass transit and telecommuting on the information superhighway. Some believed that L.A. residents may finally be primed to accept changes that should have come long ago. Elwood Smietana, Southern California manager of EQE, a San Francisco earthquake-design firm, put it bluntly: "It really takes a disaster to get people off their butts...
...Jake and Elwood, Blues Brothers type roadtrip. Some business needed to be taken care of. The type of business that all potential Ivy league champions must tend...