Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people were trapped their homes without power or water, authorities suspect that perhaps more than a dozen bodies remain buried...
...Angels' effort to forge a national network has had mixed success. In New Orleans Angels have nabbed a knife-wielding robber with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol...
Amid this historical revivalism, one question remains. Do grand edifices promote noble accomplishments? Speaker Brown thinks that they are an inspiration. "In these incredible surroundings," he said, "I suspect that most of us will rise above anything we thought we were capable of doing." That sentiment was echoed by Silversmith Mindermann, who is now working in a sheet-metal shop. "You drive by," he says, "and you look up at it, and you can't help feeling anything but proud...
...large gray noodle. I had never seen a gray noodle before, so I looked more closely at this substance, and discovered that it was actually a piece of cardboard. This was rather disturbing. You see, when I left in August to come here, cardboard was not considered food. I suspect that cardboard is still not considered food, but it apparently is served in the Union...
MODELED CLOSELY on an English mini-series of the same title, Pennies from Heaven traces Arthur's adulterous romance with a baby-faced kindergarten teacher named Eileen Everson (Bernadette Peters), and follows the pair to their eventual downfall when Arthur becomes suspect in a murder. If it weren't for a surprisingly original gimmick, the movie might have just been another lowlife melodrama in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But as the two lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood...