Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MacAlister was spared, but three others in Moore were not. Eleven perished in the small town of Bridge Creek alone; one man there lost his mother and his three-week-old son. Altogether, some 750 Oklahomans were injured and 41 killed. And three died in Kansas, and one in Texas. It was the nation's highest tornado-related body count in more than a decade. Property damage may reach $1 billion...
...paid an outside real estate company to show them around the most attractive residential sections of the city and surrounding suburbs. The real estate firm also offered the relocating family detailed demographics on various suburbs, including the rankings of their schools and the projected economic viability of these various towns. This way the Beards would have as much information as possible to help them decide which part of town would be right for them to move to. For Beard, the ultimate epiphany came when his new employer offered to pay $2,500 to have his 500-bottle wine collection specially...
...better than it was that night in 1984. Securing Goodman's release instantly transformed him, in the public mind, from a doggerel-spouting opportunist into a diplomatic star and serious presidential candidate. But only a few weeks later, Jackson's references to New York City as "Hymie Town" hit the front pages, plunging him--and his standing in the polls--into a depression. Ever since, through two presidential campaigns and countless crusades, he has been trying to recapture the acclaim he won in Damascus and the euphoric high it gave...
...Several stories explore the characters' futile search for something that is no longer there. In "The Haunted Beach," art dealer Penelope has avoided a Mexican town for years because beautiful memories of it include a man she would rather forget. When she feels she has done so and goes back with a different companion, nothing is as she remembers it, and she vainly tries to recapture her past feelings for the place. Its perfect beauty, at least in her eyes, is gone. Just as she is less happy and older than on previous visits, now the grass is dingier...
...Left-Handed Path, whose lust for blood knows no limits. In a savage and seemingly senseless double-murder, a 14-year-old girl, Gabi, is kidnapped. Her father, Bob Hightower, with his ex-wife dead and his daughter missing, is more desperate than he ever imagined possible. A small-town cop, Bob frantically investigates every lead but as days turn into weeks, his last hope at finding his daughter is an ex-cult member, ex-junkie named Case. As these two hardened, taciturn creatures go off together in search of Bob's daughter, they are immersed in the heart...