Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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New Lawyer. The odds are overwhelming that he was trapped in the flooding, but rumors proliferated anyway. Some newsmen remembered Hughes saying of Manson, "I'm afraid of him." One inevitable speculation was that Manson followers had kidnaped or killed the attorney. Or perhaps Hughes had disappeared to gain...
Despite the disappearance, Judge Charles Older ordered the trial to proceed and appointed a co-counsel, Maxwell Keith, for Van Houten. The girls angrily demanded the firing of all their lawyers, and asked to reopen the defense so that they could put 2.1 witnesses on the stand. Judge Older said...
As the horses pounded down the homestretch, Parisian Maurice Luca was certain that he had picked a winning tierce.* France's noted jockey, Roger Poincelet, had whipped Scallywag−one of Luca's betting choices−into third place, and there was barely a furlong left to go...
In an unprecedented decision that has the French racing industry in an angry uproar, Paris' Seventh Chamber of the Court of Appeals awarded $3,000 damages to Luca. Said the court: "The jockey must not, before arriving at the finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for...
When the two robbers entered a liquor store in Oakland, Calif., they did not see Linda West, wife of the owner, who was standing on a ladder checking the stock. As she watched. John Smith started waving a gun at her husband, and James Daniels nervously warned, "Don't...