Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Timothy had been smothered to death. An autopsy revealed signs of sexual abuse, and there were marks around his wrists and ankles suggesting that he had been tied. His last meal had been chicken (in a TV appeal for his return, his mother had mentioned that his favorite dinner was chicken). His body was strikingly clean. "He was scrubbed, his fingernails and toenails were immaculate," says Wayne County Medical Examiner Werner Spitz. "Even his clothes had been cleaned...
...most of it appears to be home grown, with the steady stream of bewildered, broke runaways serving as a ready pool of "acting talent" for photographers. Pornographers who stalk children at big-city bus stations find many victims eager to pose for $5 or $10-or simply for a meal and a friendly word. Says Lloyd Martin, head of the Los Angeles police department's sexually abused child unit: "Sometimes for the price of an ice-cream cone a kid of eight will pose for a producer. He usually trusts the guy because he's getting from...
...management is taking particular care in choosing its wine list, and in seeing that its waiters are equipped to help customers select an appropriate wine for their meal, Koval said...
...remote town I was invited to lunch with a boy of fifteen at his home. Throughout the meal he asked questions about America: Had I heard of Muhammad Ali? Did I have a car? A wife?, and about Tunisia: Had I been to this or that place? Did I like Tunisia more than America? His younger brother was alternately trying to engage me in a game of ball and trying to elicit mistakes in Arabic from me which would make him giggle uncontrollably...
...believed in opening a story with a leisurely reflection on the weather and any other aspect of the day's events that struck his fancy. In those years, two rounds were played on the final day of a tournament so Darwin would digest the morning round over a midday meal. Afterwards, he would compose his article while sipping port, always for he did not believe in taking highlights out of sequence. This dignified attitude is transparent in what is considered the most famous line Darwin ever penned. "Then it was time to go to tea," he wrote after watching only...