Word: sought
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...whom she had a daughter, but the couple split in 1970. Three years later, Kathleen married Ed Willey, a real estate lawyer with whom she had a son. Around 1990, moved at least in part by the death of the newborn son of her friend Julie Steele, Kathleen Willey sought the help of an agency to find the child she had given up years before. She discovered him in Pennsylvania, and when he came to visit the Willeys, they threw a party for him. She refers to his kids as her grandchildren...
...creditors. She reluctantly agreed but over the next two weeks hounded her husband for a plan to rescue the family. He had none. A meeting the Sunday after Thanksgiving with their children dissolved into a shouting match, and Ed moved out of their home. The next day Kathleen sought out her friend the President in the Oval Office. As she raced home from that controversial meeting, Ed Willey pulled his blue Isuzu Trooper off a country road and, after blowing a tire, walked into the woods and shot himself. "I deserve your eternal scorn," Willey wrote his wife...
...being laid bare, we see both evil and ineptitude. For all its terror, the Sovereignty Commission often seemed like a band of Klanstone Kops. Investigators were flummoxed by the race of a baby with a light complexion and dark, curly hair. They railed hilariously at "beatniks" and "Castroites" and sought to boycott sponsors of integrationist entertainers such as Lena Horne and Marlon Brando...
...places he stopped to look, President Clinton found what he sought for in Africa this week: proud people, ascendant economies and even a young Ugandan named Bill Clinton...
...suspects offered no explanation for the shootings, but a classmate said one of the boys had recently broken up with his girlfriend. A third boy, thought to have pulled the alarm, is still being sought. The dead students, all girls, have been identified as Natalie Brooks, Paige Ann Herring and Stephanie Johnson, all 12, and Brittany R. Varner, 11. Teacher Shannon Wright, 32, died after surgery. Nine of the wounded were also girls...