Word: casing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case was revived after more than a quarter-century by Jackson's daily Clarion-Ledger, which last year ran a series of investigative stories on Beckwith's earlier trials. That prompted Hinds County district attorney Ed Peters and assistant D.A. Bobby DeLaughter to re-examine the 1964 proceedings. From then on, as DeLaughter puts it, evidence began "falling into our laps...
...Lewis: A Biography by A.N. Wilson. Comic novels, essays and biographies waft from Wilson with Mozartean ease. Each book seems better than the last, or at least different in some incomparable way. Such is the case with his approach to Lewis, the British writer and celebrator of Christian thought who delighted both adults (The Screwtape Letters) and children (The Chronicles of Narnia). Fans should be warned that Wilson's portrait of the saintly don contains some fleshy demons...
...gathered in Manhattan this month for a TIME economic forum. "We have a moderate, potentially severe recession on our hands," said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisers. "The economy is showing signs of caving in, almost falling off a cliff, as so often is the case once a full-fledged recession begins." If the conditions seem particularly bleak, he noted, "that is because we are in the heart of the slide...
...Waller who blurted out that unexpected assessment last week, and for those who know him, it was altogether plausible that this was a simple case of a guileless Army man putting his boot in his mouth. "He's a hell of a good soldier," said a friend of Waller's, "but that doesn't make him a competent spokesman...
...every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...