Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years I have worked here at the courthouse, and every year until last I saw hundreds and hundreds of the beautiful little pine siskin on the lawn, as the dandelions first went to seed. This year the tally was 17 or 18. And they didn't behave in a normal manner, for instead of spending a week or so here, they hung around as though lost until a few days ago -the last time I noted them...
...have always had dozens of robins on this lawn and other dozens on the lawns between here and home. This year four showed up on this lawn, two on the lawns between here and home. A cat got one of the four and now a third has disappeared. The lovely mountain bluebird nested everywhere in this town and the surrounding hamlets and farms. I can't vouch for anywhere but my daily route-but here we have exactly one pair...
Almost Incidental. Sharon and Sebring were the prime objects of the mayhem: the deaths of the other three victims seemed almost incidental. The bodies of Coffee Heiress Abigail Folger, 26, and her boy friend, a sort of society camp follower named Voityck Frokowski, 37, were found on the lawn. Both were clothed, but Frokowski's trousers were down around his ankles. Miss Folger had been stabbed repeatedly, and Frokowski had been both stabbed and shot. Steven Parent. 18, a student, was shot five times in the chest, apparently while trying to get away in his car. None...
...better get over here right away," the caller told Los Angeles police. "There's a man lying on the front lawn and blood all over the place. It looks like a bad one." It was even worse than the caller thought. When police reached the hilltop home rented by Film Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby) in the fashionable suburb of Bel Air, they found not one body but five. It was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of the human...
...slaughter confined to the house. "There was ample blood all around," said a policeman. On the lawn lay the bodies of Voyteck Frykowski, 37, a friend and associate of Polanski's, and Abigail Folger, 26, heiress to her family's coffee fortune and a partner of Sebring's in his chain of men's hair-styling shops. In a white Ambassador sedan parked in the driveway was the body of an unidentified young man. All had been slain...