1.   Arizona has its own sordid history of small bodies ripped apart by bullets, raped, beaten or simply snatched and still missing.

2.   Arizona has its own sordid history of small bodies ripped apart by bullets, raped, beaten, or simply snatched and still missing.

3.   A running gag in the film is that throughout its sordid history the hapless, talentless group keeps losing drummers to mysterious circumstances.

4.   But some of those diamonds have a sordid history.

5.   Given the sordid history of past military rule in Nigeria, this is a dangerous accommodation.

6.   Her mother, Vanessa, has her own sordid history.

7.   So there we were again, snagged and flopping on the hook of a sordid history that simply refused to let go.

8.   The sordid history of Western leadership in the Bosnian conflict should lead any realist to expect little now.

9.   Yet Colombia has a sordid history of self-defense groups morphing into something far more sinister.

10.   Lacking eyewitnesses, the prosecution portrayed Simpson as a jealous wife-beater and dredged up a sordid history of spousal abuse.