Word: thicketed
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Taking the baby to a thicket less than half a mile from his Plainview home, he laid him down on the ground in a chill, drizzling rain, abandoned him. Within a few days, though he could no longer bargain with the Weinbergers, LaMarca sent them another ransom note, telephoned them at least once-but Morris Weinberger and his wife somehow never made direct contact with...
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom...
...Stand Still. When they swarmed over the X2, engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...
Besley put down his glasses for a moment, then picked them up again. To his surprise he saw the man crawl out of the bushes, stand up, look around furtively, duck back. Then the woman left her chair, walked to a rock about three feet from the thicket. There she sat down again...
Besley threw down his glasses, called his wife. Together, they raced for their car in the basement garage, sped across the drive, hailed a motorcycle cop. When they arrived at the thicket ten minutes later, the man was gone. In the bushes, the cop found the body of Margaret Gallagher, a 50-year-old beauty-parlor operator. Her skull was crushed, her body half-stripped. Nearby lay her book, Ben-Hur. In it was a religious picture with an image of Christ on one side; on the other was printed "A Prayer for a Happy Death...