Word: lone
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While some of Harvard's museums underwent renovations this summer, University officials announced that thousands of artifacts from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology might be rented out to a Texas billionaire and moved to the Lone Star State...
...When Agca was seized in the square, he was carrying a letter stating that the motive for shooting the Pope to protest U.S. and Soviet imperialism. "(Vassilev) suggested that I write (the letter) because in the event of capture it would be useful to give the impression of a lone killer," Agca said...
...board. More often a confederate, such as a member of an airline ground crew or a maintenance worker at an airport, plants the gun either on the plane or somewhere in the terminal beyond the screening machines. The wall of security does seem to have deterred many of the lone gunmen who so often diverted flights to Cuba in the 1970s; the number of hijackings around the world has steadily decreased, from 91 in 1969 to 17 last year. Still, the precautions have not yet been able to thwart highly organized, professional terrorists like those who found...
...were ready to close the lid on the case of the Angel of Death forever. "When you imagine how Mengele himself would organize his own death," suggested West German Mengele-Hunter Katz, "this is the way he would do it. I can imagine him, a lone wolf sitting in his den and laughing at how the whole world believes it." However fanciful, the point was well taken. Even a positive identification of the Embu bones and a categorical verification of Mengele's presence in Brazil would not resolve all the uncertainties. Nor would the laying to rest of the body...
Norris says he feels that acting ability is less important than "screen presence." Maybe so, but he takes artlessness to an extreme. Gary Cooper seems mannered and fidgety by comparison. As a loner cop in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) or as a loner cop in Code of Silence, Norris comes across as an expressionless blank, conveying nothing but tenacity and absolute cool. His body is impeccable, but the voice is flat and high pitched. He has instructed writers to give him as few lines as possible, yet he rushes the elemental dialogue that remains. Words slur: "didn't" becomes "dint...