Word: snowbanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bundy murdered in Colorado in 1975. But what was second nature to most journalists was yet another horrible reminder for the Campbell family. "Any article or news report about Ted Bundy always included Caryn's name and the fact that 'her nude and frozen body was found in a snowbank,' " wrote her sister, Nancy McDonald, in a letter published in the Detroit News last week. "It's been extremely difficult for us to accept Caryn's loss and the way her body was found, but we, her family, did not need to hear, see and read the same fact...
...could switch-hit with phenomenal power, round the bases in less than 13 seconds and outrun fly balls to deepest Yankee Stadium. He could also injure himself in battles with water coolers and golf clubs, and / get so hung over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel...
Indeed, Moon is in some ways quintessentially American. He was tortured in several communist prison camps and was once left for dead on a bloody snowbank in Dac Dong, but he survived to become an immigrant millionaire. A devout anti-communist, Moon's speeches frequently echo not only of one of his heroes, Douglas MacArthur, but also of earlier American patriots. One of his recent statements: "I am even willing to give my life, if that will ensure that the nation and world survive and do God's will" echoes of Nathan Hale...
...they own the place," said Beardsley. "They do." Employees still park in the lot, but cautiously wait in the lobby if there are moose around. Ray Kramer, a biologist for the state game service, has advised fellow Alaskans who encounter a hungry, charging moose to head for the nearest snowbank, cover up and pray...