Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday, the small town of Franklin, New Jersey (pop. 5,000), had become an Alfred Hitchcock crime scene, with two suspects arrested for murders so pointless that their inexplicability was virtually a cinematic device. The vacuum absorbed the attention not only of Sussex County's stunned residents but also of big-city papers and network television. thrill killer, screamed the tabloid New York Daily News over one suspect's photo. victims lured to a remote spot and slain, echoed a rare top-item crime story in the august New York Times...
...Dumpster; another body was thrown from a water tower; not only was pizza flung in the air in celebration, slices were smeared on the faces of the dead. None of those rumors were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation. It was not a cult. None of the classic elements like revenge or greed seemed to be present. I think that's what bothers people. They want...
...that they believed, but could not prove, had the shape of a soccer ball. Nobody is skeptical anymore. Not only has their theory been confirmed, but it has blossomed into a thriving branch of research. And last week that trio of chemists--Harold Kroto from Britain's University of Sussex, and Robert Curl and Richard Smalley from Rice University in Houston--were rewarded for their work with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
...pigeons in the morning papers. "Don't look so glum, Alfie," Alfie's wife says, as she puts the eggs and grilled tomato and thick-cut bacon in front of him. "Maybe this was some nice gentleman who has a home for older pigeons in a lovely part of Sussex where they don't have to be around those nasty foreigners...
Bruce Hermans, who lives in Sussex, England, said he came to enjoy Harvard's unique architecture...