Word: reconstruct
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Connolly's original partner in detection and the heir to his notebooks was James Fox, a British journalist who went on to reconstruct the crime and, after trips to Kenya and interviews with Lord Erroll's friends, produce a plausible murderer. His gift for narrative immediately carries the reader into a long-gone, closed world of privilege and debauchery. White Mischiefs authentic cast of characters is as satisfyingly repellent a crew as ever peopled Black Mischief, Evelyn Waugh's novel of English predators on the loose in Africa...
...Scriptures is drawn solely from the Masoretic text in Hebrew, which evolved into its present form by the 10th century and is Judaism's only official scriptural standard. By comparison, Christian translators consult a variety of scrolls and codices in Hebrew and other ancient languages in order to reconstruct what they hope is the original wording of millenniums...
...official communiques summed up decisions reached at the Versailles economic summit but not the mood and spirit of the high-level talks that led to the decisions. After interviewing several participants, TIME European Correspondent Lawrence Malkin was able to reconstruct a bit of what took place at the afternoon session on Saturday, June...
Discovering the age of the basin will enable scientists to "reconstruct the geological series of events" that occurred during the pre-Cambrian era, when the Basin was formed. Paul Strother, a post-doctoral fellow in Biology and one of the discoverers, said yesterday...
Meanwhile, investigators studying the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 in Washington, D.C., eleven days earlier used the plane's flight recorder data to reconstruct its takeoff. The Boeing 737 took 47 sec. rather than the usual 30 sec. to reach its lift-off speed of 147 knots, thus putting it farther down the runway than normal when it ascended. The plane stayed aloft less than 30 sec. and reached a maximum height of 337 ft. when it should have been much higher. Investigators are looking into the possibility that runway slush slowed the plane on takeoff. They also...