Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thirteen-year old little girl named Marguerite Poirier was attacked by a wild, wolf-like beast as she tended to her flocks in the small French village of Paulot, in the province of Guyenne. Later that month a strange boy, Jean Grenier, was brought before the local judge for the crime. The wolfish animal, it was thought by the locals, had been young Jean. For Jean, it seems, was a werewolf...
Well, okay, so he wasn't. Since Greek and Roman times, though, one of the most powerful myths in all of Western culture has been the werewolf, that half-man, half-beast symbolic of the evil that lurks within the hearts of men. But little did young Marguerite and Jean know that one day, some 383 years later, their alleged skirmish would introduce Tom Mueller's History and Literature thesis on the werewolf legend throughout history...
...Prince day after day. Armed soldiers in steel helmets surrounded the defendant, who sat erect, dressed in a business suit, seemingly impervious to both the temperature and the allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead to an additional 15-year sentence...
...started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity, the Johns stayed out of the spotlight...
...incomes to make payments on their mortgages. In 1949 the average 30-year-old male homeowner spent 14% of his earnings on mortgage payments; by 1983 the proportion had climbed to 44%. For some the sacrifice has meant forgoing additional children. Tom Cray, 36, of Rochester, and his wife Jean, 41, would like to have a second child, but they are not sure their two salaries will stretch to cover the mortgage and two children. Says Cray: "It's depressing to think human life has a price...