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Word: homely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chauncy St. resident was arrested at his home at about I a.m. yesterday after he allegedly stabbed a pregnant woman to death in a Brookline restaurant, police said...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Chauncy Resident Arrested for Murder | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them $5 million in exchange for his freedom. Instead, Felix Gallardo was flown to Mexico City, where he could face up to 63 years in ; jail for drug trafficking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Wimp No More | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...most curious tale in North's testimony concerned the "family fund": a stash of up to $15,000 in cash that North claimed he kept in a steel box bolted to the floor of a closet in his suburban Washington home. North's initial explanation of how he happened to have that much cash lying around elicited muffled laughter from the courtroom audience. "When I would come home on Friday . . . I would take my change out of my pocket and put it in that steel box I'd been issued as a midshipman." When Keker expressed his disbelief, North added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ollie's Cash Stash | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...John, first at the rendezvous somewhere southeast of Los Angeles, sits patiently in the captain's chair of his motor home, parked on a promontory overlooking a panorama of backcountry hills green as spring in the afternoon sun. A full silver beard spreads over his chest, almost obscuring the picture of a Thompson submachine gun on his red T shirt. THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN FREEDOM MACHINE, reads the legend. A bird-skinning knife is holstered parallel to his belt. Big John is an original road warrior, a man whose history stretches back to the beginning of time as bikers measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...motor home, stripped of furniture and crammed with glassware and supplies, was parked in the trees next to a friend's lake-side shack. "They skied and chased girls while I cooked," Bernard remembers. This was no home- kitchen production with towels stuffed under the door to contain the pungent odor of the process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

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