Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went, she and her two young sons were sleeping in the family's first-floor living room when a man came through the window, murdered the boys and then stabbed her before fleeing. But late Tuesday night, Dallas police announced that Routier's story was no truer than Susan Smith's. Like the South Carolina woman who falsely claimed that a carjacker had abducted her children, Routier had pleaded for help in finding the killer. But as the investigation took shape, TIME's Carlton Stowers reports, inconsistencies in her story led them to doubt her. (Blood evidence, for example, showed...
...went, she and her two young sons were sleeping in the family's first-floor living room when a man came through the window, murdered the boys and then stabbed her before fleeing. But late Tuesday night, Dallas police announced that Routier's story was no truer than Susan Smith's. Like the South Carolina woman who falsely claimed that a carjacker had abducted her children, Routier had pleaded for help in finding the killer. But as the investigation took shape, TIME's Carlton Stowers reports, inconsistencies in her story led them to doubt her. (Blood evidence, for example, showed...
...clothing line's $9 million profit last year, she donated $1 million to the Association to Benefit Children, which opened shelters for crack-addicted children and children with AIDS. She promised to monitor factories where her clothes are made and said she would recruit other famous endorsers like Jaclyn Smith to help pressure manufacturers to police labor practices more closely...
...refer, of course, to Senator Jefferson Smith. In Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart plays this simple, idealistic small-town American, mocked and scorned by the big-moneyed, oh-so-sophisticated power elite--only to triumph over a corrupt Establishment with his rock-solid goodness...
...Clampetts of Beverly Hills, to Forrest Gump, who took the myth one step further by demonstrating that a double-digit IQ could lead to immense worldly success if accompanied by a good heart and simple decency. It is the essence of Capra's best-loved heroes. Jefferson Smith must contend with the schemes of Senator Paine, his onetime hero who plays a scene decked out in white tie and tails. In Meet John Doe, Gary Cooper battles the fascistic schemes of the super-rich Edward Arnold, who is seen in an elegant dining room complete with tuxedo and cigar...