Word: resting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...told, the Osserman group raked in $20 million in coal investments, only $300,000 of which went to pay for leasing the lands. The rest was dissipated through a network of corporations; part went for commissions to tax-shelter salesmen and payoffs to business associates, part into other deals, and part was used to purchase such assets as a business jet, a Ferrari and several Rolls-Royces. Investigators believe that a sizable chunk of the money may remain salted away in Swiss bank accounts. Further indictments might be handed down against some investors, who knew that the transactions were...
...independence forced upon her older brothers, Alice had little choice but to stay home and hope for escape through marriage. By the time it became clear that proposals were not forth-coming, Alice had long since adopted a third Victorian alternative. Although she dabbled in community activities for the rest of her life, her main energies, from the time she was 20, centered around her "nerves...
...never became clear how many of her problems were physical, Alice's condition was at least, in part, a matter of choice. After feeling slighted and neglected throughout a healthy childhood and adolescence, she discovered, during her first breakdown, that her father refused to leave her bedside. For the rest of ther life, her most acute periods of sickness followed directly upon the heels of her greatest setbacks and frustrations...
McLaughlin had hoped to be able to rest the senior guard, but just five minutes into the game, with the Crimson having trouble with the Wildcats' (what else?) 2-3 zone, he sent Mannix in to put some muchneeded outside pressure on the New Hampshire defense...
...despite furious pressure on the Bruin net the rest of the way, including several puck-through-the-crease heart-breakers and the squad's best power-play effort of the season, the Crimson (now 4-3) couldn't score again, and trudged to the locker room one-goal losers...