Word: tac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sixteen-year-old Sandra Gabbert was typical of the Green River Killer's victims. Like eleven others, Sandra was a prostitute. She worked an area of the Pacific Highway South called Sea-Tac Strip where prostitutes did a brisk business. Three months after she began her career, Sandra disappeared. Her skeleton was one of those discovered last week. Nine of the killer's 20 suspected victims since the summer of 1982 have been found in or near the Green River...
...front stoop, crooning softly of going far, far away to find another mother. "What she did to my young brother was worse. When he was two years old, she tried to hang him from the shower curtain and drown him in the toilet. He still has tic-tac-toe marks across his chest from being held down across a red-hot heating grate. From the time he was born, my. mother groomed my brother to kill my father. When Daddy came home, she made us tell him how much we hated him. I went to bed and prayed he didn...
...this century trade sanctions have become the warfare of first resort. The U.S. and such international bodies as the League of Nations and the United Nations have employed embargoes to punish Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain and many other countries. In almost every case these tac tics failed dismally because the target nations found new trading partners or willing smugglers to get around the restrictions. Concludes John Letiche, professor of international economics at the University of California at Berkeley: "The history of trade embargoes is a history of evasion...
When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...
...mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary's to keep Siebert alive until State Judge Lindsay Arthur can resolve the dispute...