Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again. But five minutes later Looby was out on the street calling, "Come over here, you!" Adams came-with Mary Deady clinging to his arm. Looby aimed a .25 caliber pistol at him and fired twice. Adams dropped, moaning, "Oh, no. Oh, no." Mary Deady began praying beside him. Ralph Adams was dead in minutes...
...inquest Looby sat with bowed head and listened to Spinster Deady's trembling voice again. "Ralph was shot down like a dog because he parked his car," she cried. "You ruined my life when you shot down the man I loved. He didn't even have a chance to say, 'My God, forgive my sins.' " David Looby was charged with murder...
...less elegant spot, Ralph Solecki of the Smithsonian Institution was digging into an even more distant past. Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq is still inhabited during the winter months by about 40 Kurds and their flocks and herds. Last year Solecki became interested in the debris on the cave's floor. Back at Shanidar early this year, financed by a Fulbright grant and surrounded by fascinated Kurds, Archaeologist Solecki carefully dug a square shaft in the promising deposit. The top layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged...
...child less than a year old who had died something like 70,000 years ago. The child had lain there while dirt, rubbish and broken utensils covered it deeper and deeper. The whole sweep of human development was enacted over its skull, culminating at last in modern technological man: Ralph Solecki of the Smithsonian...
...chat with an interviewer for London's Daily Express, the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, 93, famed "Gloomy Dean" (1911-1934) of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, ruminated glumly on his own life...