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Word: slaight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder at Woo Poo | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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