Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack in the Box restaurant. Two more died and hundreds of other Westerners fell ill from the contaminated food; some of them developed a life-threatening kidney syndrome. The new President, in office for only two days, expressed his shock. The Agriculture Secretary, Mike Espy, ordered an investigation to trace the outbreak's cause, a mystery never conclusively solved. In the midst of that emergency, Espy found time to intervene in an obscure Puerto Rico dispute of great concern to the U.S. poultry industry, and especially to Tyson Foods, the world's largest chicken producer and the No. 1 poultry...
...police searched the crime scene and peered in and around the car for about 20 minutes. The doors of the car were locked, and so police were unable to enter. Police found no trace of the thief...
When asked how they could have let the most famous double-murder suspect in history slip away under their noses, the angry police commander and the tight- faced lawyer and the whole choir of commentators all said the same thing, without a trace of irony: "We never thought he would...
That change is particularly striking given the relative newness of the gay movement: it is hard to trace significant activity back much further than the 1950s, whereas the civil rights movements for blacks and women took shape in the 19th century and needed far longer to attain their basic goals. The rapid pace of change for gays owes much to the trails blazed by blacks and women, and the success of those groups gives gays hope that in a generation or so they will have attained full acceptance as just another piece fitting into the mosaic of national life...
...loose, devouring people at will and at random. Off to Hills for two hours: three people on my floor have gone. Off to work in morning two more have left. To the dining hall for dinner, the last half of my floor completely wiped out. All without a trace. Just empty rooms left unlocked. Not even some Sony discman or scientific calculator mistakenly left behind for me to remember them...