Word: towing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some citizens seemed determined to take matters into their own hands. In one incident, about 100 people halted a man who was leaving an East Berlin office of the dreaded Stasi (secret police) with two suitcases in tow. When the man was handed over to the police, they discovered currency worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that was believed to be intended for party officials. Two days later the man was found hanged in his jail cell. The 25,000-man Stasi, meanwhile, was partly defanged by the dismissal of its directorate and the reassignment of some 7,000 agents...
...little to the imagination. Divorced from Welles and entrusted with the care of their daughter, Hayworth wanted a peaceful, anonymous existence. And then she married . . . Aly Khan, already fabled in the tabloids for his wealth and promiscuity. Before long she ran back to America, with another daughter, Yasmin, in tow. And then she married Dick Haymes, a failing nightclub singer with big problems in the area of unpaid alimony and back taxes...
Family participation means just that, and many members of the Harvard community come swimming with babies in tow. The safest way to transport a baby is in a stroller. Back packs, "Snuglis," slings or in bare arms places both child and adults at risk for falls. Strapped in a stroller, the baby can easily be wheeled, look around, play with small toys or sleep. Someone could bump into the stroller, yes, and/or knock it into the pool. Therefore, children strapped in carriages should be kept away from poolside and be attended to by an adult at all times...
...possibility of obtaining treble damages and the enormous leverage of labeling an opponent a "racketeer." The result has been a widening array of civil RICO lawsuits, from common commercial litigation to provocative political disputes. The law has been invoked by victims of sexual harassment against their bosses, by tow-truck drivers against local sheriffs and by whistle-blowers against their employers. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court upheld the use of RICO by a Philadelphia abortion clinic against 26 right-to-lifers who forced their way into the building, castigated patients, knocked down workers and damaged equipment...
Often the coroner is a funeral-home director and sometimes even a tow-truck operator, whose primary ability is transporting bodies. The coroner frequently hires hospital pathologists to do the autopsy. Those unfamiliar with signs of violence may confuse gunshot entrance and exit wounds or may be unable to tell whether a fractured skull was caused by a fall or a blow. Or they may ignore important evidence, such as the contents of a victim's stomach or hairs and fibers left on clothing or skin...