Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promise of neither a witch hunt nor a whitewash
...housing and community renewal and straightened out the state's nearly bankrupt programs in those areas. Heimann was an early backer of Jimmy Carter. Soon after beginning the investigation of Lance's finances, Heimann ordered his top staff to conduct "neither a whitewash nor a witch hunt...
...always keep one of the five bullets in his revolver in reserve in case he faced capture. He twice emptied the gun in his attacks. No, he did not look only for dark-haired girls, haunt discotheques for victims or carefully case a site before striking. His hunt was random. "When I got a calling," he said, "I went looking for a spot...
Like father, like son-usually, perhaps, but not in the Hunt family. The late Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, who parlayed a winning poker hand into a pyramid of oil wells, was eccentric even for a self-made billionaire. Before he died in November 1974, Hunt became a legend for his backing of ultra-right-wing causes, his penny-pinching (he often carried his lunch in a brown paper bag) and his health faddism (he used to crawl around his Dallas mansion on all fours for exercise). The youngest of his five sons, Ray Hunt, 34, is quiet almost to the point...
While the hunt went on, Germans angrily debated on what to do about the string of political killings. Until now, the most prominent victims have been government officials such as Public Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, who was shot down on a Karlsruhe street in April by two men on a motorcycle. Now, for the first time, the target was an eminent figure in the business community...