Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cohen's wife ran into a closet. Unruh fired twice through the door, then pulled it open and shot her through the head. He cornered the druggist's 63-year-old mother in another room, and killed her. He trapped Cohen outside on a roof and shot him; the druggist fell to the pavement and the killer aimed, fired, hit him again...
...moved on to a tailor shop, opened the door, and murdered the tailor's screaming wife. He pushed into a neighboring house, found a fear-stricken woman and her 16-year-old son, shot both of them with his last bullets. Then he went back to his upstairs bedroom, leaving twelve dead, one dying and three wounded in a scant twelve minutes that had no counterpart in U.S. crime history...
...balloon had cleared Knocke beach, the wind had freshened. The balloon was 1,000 feet up and heading north at 25 m.p.h. The men in the motorboat made one grab for Joseph's line as he whipped by overhead and missed. Joseph, who had faithfully promised his wife that he would not go more than ten miles...
...happy arrangement. The police gave the balloonist a night's lodging. The London paper offered to telephone his wife and pay his way back to Belgium in return for an exclusive story. "I accepted," said van der Straeten, "and suddenly learned just what journalism is-six parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke...
...Angelo was plump, jovial, devoutly Catholic. By Italian standards, he was also prosperous. Thirty years ago he had gone to the New World to seek his fortune, and in Rhode Island he had found it, in a modest way, as a Providence shopkeeper. Last June, Angelo and his wife, Anna, went back to their beloved, native Naples for a two months' visit...