Word: escondido
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...district hired superintendent William Brand, who had helped eliminate tracking in Escondido, Calif. Brand immediately set out to do the same at Santa Paula High School. But he faced resistance. Virtually the entire English department opposed the change, claiming that mixing high-achievers with average students would force the curriculum to be "dumbed down." Calls from angry or worried parents flooded Brand's office. "They thought the world was ending," he recalls...
...might come to that. It might take that to get us killed." With the death from cancer of Nettles in 1985, the cult moved away from fulfilling Revelation. But perhaps not entirely. Last week police discovered a small arms cache at a storage facility near a former headquarters in Escondido, California...
...later the Dallas-Fort Worth region. (In the Rancho Santa Fe area, the group appears to have rented two different crafts.) Thus Applewhite had enough assets to initiate the cult's last great recruitment drive, on New Year's Day 1994. An estate sale was held at the Escondido mansion, raising money to buy four vans and gear to tour the country...
...Escondido, California...
...fact, women could not have been safer in a seminary. "I was just saying to my friend, 'You know, the men here are acting as though they're afraid to even talk to a woman!' " observed Charlene Fulton, a nurse from Escondido, California. "They'll make eye contact and then quickly look away." Fulton came on the arm of retired Lieut. Commander Warren Schmidt, 72, an Okinawa veteran who, when asked if he had been in Vegas in '91, smiled and replied, "No, dammit, I missed...