Word: errand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST SUMMER the employees of the office where Susan worked asked her to get them frozen yogurt when she went on an errand. Knowing that frozen yogurt was her particular dieting downfall, Susan resolved not to have any, until she got to the store and discovered that three of her favorite flavors were in stock...
...picture. That way, any possible witnesses would not be influenced by news coverage. Barrett's murder resembled several others being investigated by Atlanta's special task force. Like three previous victims, he had disappeared from the McDaniel Street area, where he had gone on an errand. A number of others had, like Barrett, been found fully clothed on a roadside, close enough to be spotted by passing motorists. Four of them had also been discovered in the general area around the 1-20 interchange. He was also linked to perhaps as many as 17 other victims by what...
Hill, described by New York City police as a "knockabout felon," served as an errand boy for the Paul Vario faction of the Lucchese family. When Hill was arrested on narcotics charges last year, he agreed to testify against his former friends in exchange for federal protection...
...amounts of undeveloped land. Most of the interests were grouped together in the Las Vegas-based Summa Corp., which, Lummis concluded, was run by a group of Hughes lieutenants of dubious ability and honesty. These included Chester C. Davis, Summa's general counsel; Frank William Gay, a onetime errand boy who became a board director; and Nadine Henley, once Hughes' stenographer...
...perform the operation, which could involve serious cardiovascular complications. When DeBakey arrived in Panama City with five assistants, he was barred from operating. Panamanian doctors at the Paitilla Center explained that their medical and national sensibilities had been deeply offended. They would not serve as "medical gofers," or errand boys, to the Yankee surgeon from Texas, they said. One official government newspaper, Crítica, even commended the local doctors for having "courageously defended Panamanian sovereignty...