Word: sheets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thought of moving away, although her car was looted a second time and rocks later were thrown at her house. She remained curiously unshaken, never bothering to turn on her expensive burglar alarm system, and merely replacing a broken window with a plastic sheet...
...suffered while playing tennis; his colleagues began to wonder if he was becoming senile. In one pathetic scene, Justice John Marshall Harlan, once one of the court's leading intellects, was trying to sign a denial for review from his hospital bed. Nearly blind, he signed the bed sheet instead of the document. Justice William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign finance case and asked to have a tenth chair brought into the courtroom when the court heard oral arguments on the death penalty. Brennan...
Daltrey got the band together. At 15, he left school in London, took a job as a sheet-metal worker that he held for five years. He also made his own guitars and formed a group called the Detours. On the street one day, he spotted "this great big geezer with a homemade bass that looked like a football boot with a neck sticking out of it," and recruited Entwistle on the spot. Soon after that, Daltrey decked the Detour's lead singer and took over the vocals himself. Now the Detours needed a rhythm guitar player. Entwistle mentioned...
Nevertheless match talent remain, on the team especially in the longer distances. Despite coach Bill McGundy's proclamation that his team "has mere holes in it than a 20 year old sheet," the thinclads are hopping they will get just in time for the GBCs and NCAAs...
...pull on his underwear, gave chase. By then the police were on the scene. But Mullins was not through yet: in the final act of his rampage, he knocked one of the officers unconscious. If Mullins was tired after his crime marathon, so was the police computer. His rap sheet came to 42 pages, mostly for drug possession and shoplifting. Later, after listening to the detectives' version of the story, Mullins said he could not possibly have done it, it must have been someone else. The new charges-altogether eleven-include rape, robbery, assault and battery, and false imprisonment...