Word: pica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High School Cheerleader Cheryl Pierson had often fantasized about having her father killed. Her resentment and rage came to a head one day in November 1985 when Pierson and Classmate Sean Pica, both then 16, were sitting in homeroom at Newfield High School in Selden, N.Y., discussing an article in a local paper about an abused wife who enlisted someone to murder her husband. Pierson wondered aloud who would be crazy enough to undertake such a deadly commission. Pica promptly said he would volunteer -- if the price was right. Three months later, as James Pierson, a 42-year-old electrician...
...Both Pica and Pierson pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Pica was sentenced in April to eight to 24 years in prison. But Pierson argued that years of sexual abuse had pushed her over the brink. Last week, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail and five years' probation. "This is not a place I want to be in, but nothing could compare to what I went through," she said last week at , the Suffolk County Correctional Facility. "I just couldn't see any other...
Thanks to Miss Piggy's decision to pose for The Mona Piga [Dec. 12], our name has become a household word. For years, my mother-in-law collected her paycheck under the name Biga. My husband's name was printed Pica on our wedding invitation, and our charge account was under the name Pizza. Vous can blow Miss Piggy a kiss for us Pigas...
...page. The room containing the printer was an antiseptic prison vibrating with the sounds of the air conditioner and the computer. Periodically the curses of a frustrated zombie rose above the hum because the printer's fragile filament got tangled or the computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government and economics concentrators hunched over the displays, ever-conscious of the vultures peering over their shoulders and none...