Word: rafter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alberto Bravo, in charge of laundering money and sending it from Jackson Heights to Bogota. One day, perhaps because it was suspected that he had skimmed some of the cash or cooperated with the police, Toro returned home to find his five-year-old daughter hanged from a rafter in the basement. The bodies of his ten-year-old son and the family's babysitter were later found nearby in an abandoned post office. Toro and his wife offered the police no help, and the murders have never been solved...
Fine actors, like fine singers, can be divided into recital artists and operatic rafter ringers. McCowen, 53, with his refined emotional pitch, his dryly witty intelligence and his meticulous craft, is one of the recitalists. He has had showpiece roles-notably the title role in Hadrian VII and the psychiatrist in the original London production of Equus-but even these called more for finesse than fire...
...stagecoach barn is to become the church, but at the moment it is rafter high with refuse. So last week's inaugural service had to be held in the general store, which is full of abandoned electrical equipment. The new settlers, accompanied by banjo, piano and two guitars, belted out a new hymn for the occasion, written to the tune of Okie from Muskogee...
Phil Hart was a quiet man. His voice rarely shook the rafter or rang in the galleries of the Senate. Yet in many ways he was the most important man in the Senate, a constant reminder to his colleagues, an example of what they were supposed to be and so rarely were. And they recognized it. As a fellow senator once said, "His mere presence on the floor could sway votes." His colleagues knew that Hart was a man who voted his conscience, no matter what the political risks, and that his positions often represented those they should be taking...
Urged to challenge Carter to debate, Ford did so in his rafter-ringing acceptance speech. Says Houston Lawyer James Baker, Ford's third and best campaign chairman: "Even if you concede that we might have lost two out of three debates, I would argue that we still got more out of the challenge than we lost, because the American people had an opportunity to see that Carter was all over the place on the issues...