Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mitchell Johnson. She had just seen him at the Craighead County Detention Center in Arkansas, where he and his partner, Andrew Golden, 11, are in solitary confinement, awaiting an April 29 court hearing into the Jonesboro massacre. For now, though, Gretchen is thinking about smaller matters. Her son is "thin, sallow and dehydrated, with very dry, cracked lips," she says. "I begged him to drink." But Mitch, she says, is not taken with the prison's beverage selection: tap water, milk and, on a good day, Kool-Aid. He is terrified and confused, she says, able to provide few clues...
...senior White House official said he was convinced Wright's ruling would sink Starr's investigation as well. "It's over," the official said. "Ken Starr was on thin ice anyway. The public isn't going to tolerate his hauling witnesses before the grand jury and continuing his investigation when the case that got this whole thing started has been thrown out." Just to help things along, the surprised White House quickly regrouped and sent its heralds out to draw attention to new charges, that conservative groups paid off David Hale, a key witness in the ongoing land-scam probe...
...RICH, 2 THIN, 10 QUESTIONS...
...Every night I would come back to Eliot [House] with baited breath," Petrain continued. "On Thursday there was a dishearteningly thin envelope, but it was good news and I celebrated for the rest of the afternoon...
...Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around a prisoner's waist. If the prisoner becomes unruly, a guard pushes a button on a transmitter to deliver a searing charge straight to the kidneys...