Word: mailman
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...done"); assume all burglars are armed; and never shoot someone on your lawn ("Wait for them to get inside before you open up"). Tomlin follows up with an hour of instruction on the range. "My sister's home was just broken into," says Albert Vidaud, 32, a Miami mailman, explaining why he and his wife Becky, 30, enrolled. "When that happened it really made me think. We put in extra locks, but I don't know if that's enough." Says Edna Buchanan, a crime reporter for the Miami Herald: "If everyone in Dade County took this...
...dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...
...news may first delight, then bewilder inflation-weary Americans, whose stack of unpaid bills grows every time the mailman calls. According to a study by the Union Bank of Switzerland, citizens in big U.S. cities are substantially better off in terms of what they can actually buy with their wages and salaries than people with similar jobs in metropolises in other countries...
...second semester advances and midterms approach, approximately 6400 of us drag ourselves to classes with looks of chagrin, determination, or genuine interest--depending on the time of day. Winter reading period fades away, vacation never existed. The piquant awareness of our hometown mailman and the next door neighbor's child subsides as we decide which course to take for a fifth course and which to take pass/fail...