Word: pair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreed on one in which Nixon stopped far short of a full confession. When Becker tried to explain to Nixon that accepting the pardon was an implied confession of guilt, Nixon wanted to talk instead about the Washington Redskins. When Becker left, writes Ford, Nixon pressed on him a pair of cuff links and a tie pin "out of my own jewelry...
...after Christmas 1976, John Louis Evans and a friend he met in prison, Wayne Ritter, rented an Oldsmobile Cutlass and went on a spree. By Evans' count, the pair committed 37 robberies, two extortions and nine kidnapings. When they got to Mobile, Ala., Evans shot a pawnbroker in the back while the victim's two daughters, aged 7 and 9, looked on. It was all a "deadly game," says Evans. "I was planning on dying. I would never go back to prison...
Evans first made his death wish known at an unusual televised trial. Accused of murder and robbery, Evans and Ritter both threatened to murder the jurors, too, if they acquitted the pair. A shocked jury took all of 15 minutes to convict. Ritter lost his urge to die during the two years he has spent sitting on death row, and is still appealing his case. But Evans asked only that he be put to death by a lethal injection, so he could donate his organs to medicine (burning them by electrocution, he has said, would be a "waste...
Third-period goals by Egasti, Predun and Nelson, sandwiched in between a pair of man-up goals by Penn, left the game deadlocked going into the tense final stanza...
Talk about lost weekends. Traveling southwards to the land of low-level radiation, the women's tennis team opened its spring season with a pair of convincing losses...