Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full-scale offensive against the fanatics, who were now outlawed by official decree. "I want Alice Lenshina dead or alive!" he cried, waving a black kerchief to a mourning throng. Next day government troops attacked two Lenshina strongholds, killing 81 hostile warriors. But of Alice there was no trace...
More cases appeared in scattered barracks. As usual, the medics could not trace the paths by which infection spread. Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick. There was no way to predict which few men would develop a life-threatening infection that would race through the bloodstream and attack their meninges-the covering of the brain and spinal cord...
...dynasty. His grown son Henry brings home a friend, Charles Bon, who courts Sutpen's grown daughter Judith-but who turns out to be Sutpen's never-acknowledged child by his first wife, whom he put aside when he discovered that the aristocratic Creole girl had a trace of Negro blood. The Civil War interrupts, and the men go off to fight. But when the weary combatants return and meet at the gate of the ruined plantation, young Henry Sutpen shoots down his half-brother Charles Bon. Why? Was it because of a fear that Judith would commit...
...highway patrolmen went back to knocking on doors, searching for a clue they might have missed. For the fourth time President Johnson dispatched new contingents of FBI agents, who set about quizzing every employee at the two principal manufacturing plants in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. But still there was no trace of the three young civil rights workers whose station wagon had been found charred and abandoned a week earlier...
...while, it all seemed an unpleasant but harmless game, since the vast majority of the victims got home unscathed. But in two grisly cases last year, one victim was raped and murdered, and no trace has ever been found of the other. Clumsy police work encouraged cries for reform. One of the judges in the Suga case lamented, "Our criminal-code statutes are sadly out of line with our sense of values...