Word: scarred
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...years, the south end of the lake will be a slum," says San Francisco Attorney William Evers, a longtime Tahoephile. Along the northern shore, where prosperous Californians and Nevadans used to settle for summers of boating, fishing, hiking and mountaineering, a sprawl of jerry-building has sprung up to scar the scenery and threaten Tahoe's crystalline water with sewage...
...hours he sits staring at the Radley place -just in case Boo Radley should come out. Boo is the village loony, and he hasn't been seen for 15 years. Never mind. Every child in town knows that he stands six foot six and has a long jagged scar on his face. His teeth are few, yellow and rotten. His eyes pop, and most of the time he drools. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch, and whenever an azalea bush dies in Maycomb everybody knows why-Boo breathed...
...postman rings, he hides in the bedroom till the fellow goes away. "To avoid gossip," he explains a little too anxiously, and she accepts his explanation. But about the same time she discovers that her loaded gun is missing, and that night she sees on his arm a peculiar scar that could belong only to one man: the quisling, now a fugitive, who supervised the torture and murder of her husband during the German occupation...
...confronts the tramp with her husband's aunt. Not a flicker of recognition. She feeds him the dishes her husband loved. He cannot remember them. In agony she cries out: "Why do you refuse your past! Why do you refuse your life!" Then she sees the awful scar on the back of his head...
...officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney's associates in the prosecution were in the pay of a rival street railway company, which would benefit by a conviction...