Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three carloads of heavily armed men arrived at the American embassy in the Beirut suburb of Aukur last week to make a delivery. Their cargo: American Steven John Donahue, 32. His release followed nearly eleven months as a captive of Lebanese drug traffickers. Donahue said later his family had paid more than $400,000 to obtain his freedom...
...Sometimes they even re-register. Lee Rae Ulrich of San Diego married for a second time recently and signed up again because "everything I had was worn out." By the time Kathleen Sconyers Craft and Paul Jernigan Boehmig, both 32, got married on May 31 in an upscale Atlanta suburb, they had already had a linen shower, a household-item shower, a bar shower and a kitchen shower...
...residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week Auburn's cyanide scare spread to yet another brand of pain-killer. During a random check of a pharmacy in the Seattle suburb, Food and Drug Administration officials found poisoned capsules of Anacin-3, made by American Home Products. Within a day, the State of Washington imposed a 90-day ban on the sale of most nonprescription capsule drugs...
...important," Paul Webking told the medical examiner's office after his wife died unexpectedly June 11, "but Sue opened a new bottle of Excedrin capsules this morning and took two." Tragically, it was important. The bottle opened by Sue Snow, a 40-year-old banker from the Seattle suburb of Auburn, was found to contain three capsules laced with cyanide. When county officials released the bottle's lot number, Auburn Neighbor Stella Nickell, whose husband died June 5, called police with more bad news. Bruce Nickell's death, linked originally to natural causes, was reattributed to cyanide poisoning. In response...
...roots and values. Like Reagan, Rehnquist left his boyhood home in the Midwest to head for the Far West, where he embraced the frontier verities of rugged individualism and a respect for law-and-order. The son of a paper salesman, Rehnquist grew up in the quiet Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood. After serving three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he used the G.I. Bill to go to Stanford. Graduating first in his class from Stanford Law (a classmate was Sandra Day O'Connor), he was selected to clerk on the Supreme Court for Justice Robert...