Word: specked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positively identified only 28 hours after the cruelly mutilated bodies were discovered in a South Side Chicago apartment. Only 67 hours after the crime, Richard Benjamin Speck, 24, was detained as the prime suspect in the mass murder of eight young nurses on July 14. In the brief interlude between the slayings and the arrest, Speck played out a drama almost as incredible as the killings of which he is accused...
Within 48 hours of the slayings, a na tionwide manhunt was launched for a blue-eyed ex-convict charged by Chicago authorities with murder and by Federal agents with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. He was identified as Richard B. Speck, 25, of Dallas, a drifter who sports a tattooed slogan on his upper left arm: "Born to raise hell...
...week's end Speck was found in a Chicago West Side flophouse bleeding from slashes in his right wrist and left elbow which may have been self-in flicted. Police rushed him to a hospital where the alleged slayer was in serious condition...
...will lead to a fair deal for both labor and management. But I would shut down a newspaper before I would let Bertram Powers [July 2] tell me what I could not do to make my operation more economical. If I were Dolly Schiff, I would not feel one speck of remorse if I were to close the Post and put 280 printers out of work. If automation means there are too many printers, then some of them should get out of the business...
...knows she will get it." Fair exchange. For after signing a list of contractual demands that took 41 pages and nine months to accommodate, Sexagenarian Marlene Dietrich agreed to a two-week stand in Johannesburg, her first South African appearance. Among other whims, such as having every last speck of dust hand-whisked from the stage before curtain time, Marlene insisted on two separate dressing rooms: one to "relax" in, one to dress in, so to speak...