Word: rowes
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...five-year-old son and implicated in other 1979 gang killings; by electrocution; in Richmond. The same electric chair six months earlier had claimed Briley's older brother Linwood, also convicted of multiple murders, with whom he and four other men escaped for 19 days in the greatest death-row breakout in history; a third brother is serving a life sentence for murder. Club-wielding fellow prisoners attempted to stop James' execution in a 30-minute uprising that left nine guards and one inmate injured...
...SOONG DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave Harper & Row; 532 pages...
...with the often abrasive White House press corps. The tone was set when Speakes distributed copies of the letter temporarily transferring presidential powers to Vice President George Bush but refused to read the missive on live television. The ensuing chaos embarrassed all involved: while TV reporters in the front row faced their cameras and read the letter, Speakes would not answer questions from other correspondents. After several noisy minutes that included a chorus of boos from the back rows, Speakes resumed answering questions...
...over one promising timber in the Baker backyard, like a detective on the trail of colonial history. His blunt fingers run over the surface, ivory with age, tracing arcs and circles cut 300 years ago. "They didn't have rulers. They did everything by compass." Another beam reveals a row of auger holes, evidence of a hayrack. "Too low for horses," declares the Sherlock Holmes of barns. "Sheep, undoubtedly...
...bottles and cans, which they balance atop their heads with hip-swaying confidence as they walk home along potholed paths. The smaller the township, the fewer the amenities. Some communities have only a few electric lights, and none in individual homes. Some have only one outside privy for a row of houses. Night soil is collected by a clanking tractor and trailer. The smoke of coal fires hangs in the air, softening the ugly outlines of the settlements behind a gray-brown veil...