Word: rafter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marriage to Philadelphia Adman Mel Korn ended in indifference in less than a year. A few months later, she married Gynecologist Donald Payne, 45, then suffered a miscarriage. In August 1981, she discovered Payne, who had been tormented by physical and mental illness, hanging from a basement rafter...
...bodies of the two teachers, beaten to pulp, dead. Another onetime student recalls: "My brother was at Peking University; he was beaten to death; then my mother committed suicide." I spoke to a brigade leader in a distant rural commune who had been hung from a stable rafter for days, suspended by his arms tied behind him, while Red Guards beat him with fists, sticks, irons. Finally his own peasants rescued him. In Chongqing, I spoke to the vice mayor, old beyond his years. He was sent down to an iron mine where he worked underground for three years...
Braniff's end in Dallas came, fittingly, in a driving thunderstorm that had already delayed some takeoffs. Bill Rafter, a salesman from Fort Wayne, Ind., was on the last Braniff flight from Dallas to Kansas City. Said he: "We had waited four hours because of the weather delays, and then we find out that the airline is shutting down." One Dallas couple, Pete and Mary Ann Moxon, had built up enough promotional points by flying Braniff at odd hours to earn a nearly free trip to London. Now, with baby-sitting grandparents already in town from Delaware to free...
Late in the half, Dixon shifted the running game into high gear and converted two bobbled Dartmouth passes into screaming, full-court lay-ups. Fleming followed up with a rafter-rattling slam-dunk at the three-minute mark, and the Crimson took a 42-32 lead into the locker room at half-time...
...special began as a single 60-sec. commercial and, with NBC's encouragement, just grew. It is a pastiche of folksy, campfire sing-alongs; rafter-shaking black church music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence...