Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Hood Baton Rouge...
There are the ones about a rapist who preyed on the elderly, the hood who stuffed a rival into a laundry dryer, a sort of Jack the Shaver who depilated his victims with a razor, and the tale about the monsignor who died in a brothel: the police dressed him and propped him in his car, which they parked at a shopping center. It was piously announced that the prelate had suffered a heart attack while reaching for his glove compartment...
...world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today the yakuza like to think of themselves as romantic outlaws, bound together by a blood oath of loyalty, who never harm the innocent...
Three years of development have enabled Olds engineers to solve some other problems. A passenger who did not happen to notice the word diesel on the hood ornament or the rear of the car probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block...
Still, even optimists like Bavier, a member of the U.S. selection committee that picked Turner's dark horse Courageous over Ted Hood's Independence and Lowell North's Enterprise, conceded that the pirate from Peachtree Street might find himself in the first close America's Cup race in years. Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer...