Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couple went to a hamburger restaurant in the Quarter called Port of Call, on the corner of Esplanade and Dauphine. They left the restaurant around 10 p.m. and walked down Esplanade toward Mike's pickup truck, half a block away...
...then that Connie noticed three young men coming across Esplanade toward Dauphine in the same direction that she and Mike were headed. "I tried to relay my feelings to Mike to let him know that I was uncomfortable, that I did not want to continue walking," she would testify later in court. "I was holding him back, tugging on his arm, and he thought that meant I was cold, so he proceeded to take off his jacket, and I said 'no' and indicated with my head toward the three gentlemen...I was looking at the one that was closest...
...away. They made "eye contact," and he "broke eye contact first." Next, she says she saw "a gold glint or flicker" in his teeth as he said something to one of his companions. (Cousin does have gold caps on his teeth.) She and Gerardi continued walking toward Gerardi's truck. The killer Connie identified as Cousin stopped, bent down and "fiddled" with his boot. (Police were unable to find boots that fit Cousin in his home, and he says he doesn't own any.) Gerardi sent Connie to the passenger's side of the truck and headed toward the driver...
...killer] just put his arm up and shot Michael in the face. There was a pop," Connie testified. She said she was 10 ft. away. "Shareef, the gun--he was holding his arm with the gun in it," she said in court. "He looked toward me for a few seconds, and I remember thinking he was going to shoot me...I saw that Michael's legs were bent, but he wasn't falling. Shareef was holding him up...I couldn't imagine why he was doing that, and then I realized that he was probably taking his money." Connie...
...religious language with which King described his life's goal points us toward secular goals as well. If only our society could be a "city of complete life" in which the savage urge of man to ostracize any one different from his clan would be replaced with love and good will. Archie C. Epps III is Dean of Students...