Word: specking
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...restaurant, a notch or two above a stylish luncheonette, has been lovingly sanitized. Don't bother looking for a speck of dirt or any antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...
Seals' lead was short-lived, however. Providence's Bill Speck passed him shortly after the mile point and was never caught. After the first two miles, Speck moved away from the pack of pursuers...
...four-mile point, Connolly had taken over the second spot and eventually finished second behind Speck, whose winning time was a rather slow 26:50. Connolly's time was 27:07. Quirk was third, while Seals, Tom New, and George Barker tied for fourth to seal...
...guns and knives and rope-stays in style year after year. Remember Leopold and Loeb, Lizzie Borden, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Lindberg kidnapping, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde and Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy? If not, how about Texas sniper Charles Whitman, Chicago nurse murderer Richard Speck, the Boston Strangler and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
...dark nights! And then a speck...