Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unemployed vacuum-cleaner salesman, walking home from a party on a lonely stretch of Highway 96 and offered him a ride. They drove him to a deserted corner of the backwoods and, after a struggle, chained him to the truck by his ankles. Then they dragged him for three miles along a rural road outside Jasper. Byrd was alive for the first two miles, a pathologist testified at trial, and deliberately twisted his body from side to side, trying to keep his head from hitting the pavement. He may have been conscious at the time of his death, when...
...Matthew rapped, along with the crowd. In the audience, Harvard students, with their papers and reading a mile away, couldn't have been happier...
...Cape Horn cribbed a page from Melville. But coming just two months after 80-knot winds mauled a regatta sailing from Sydney to Tasmania and left six dead, Autissier's narrow escape rekindled concerns about the safety of open-seas racing. The Around Alone follows a 27,000-mile, four-stop route that begins and ends in Charleston, S.C. (see map). Two of the 87 competitors in its five quadrennial races have been lost at sea, and only 42 have completed the treacherous eight-month marathon...
...more horrifying turns in the courtroom, prosecutors argued that King and his accomplices had, after dragging Byrd half a mile, stopped to fix a flat tire. At that point Byrd was still alive and conscious. His tormentors then dragged him 2 1/2 more miles to his death. The jury also heard the tale of a young man sent to prison for burglary who emerged as a heavily tattooed member of a Klan spur group. One witness said King plotted to kill a black man when he returned to Jasper as part of a "blood-tie" initiation into the Klan chapter...
...ahead. So I called AAHLRSA and adopted that big slice of Los Angeles I had been coveting. Bette was very excited. "Have you ever seen the 5? The 5 is such a pit." She advised me to drive on my highway often. "You always visit your mile, and you complain, 'I want more landscaping...