Search Details

Word: dead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...dead in the water. For all of its merits and none of its flaws, the trade bill of 1988 will not make it past President Reagan's desk...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Trading In Opportunities | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Playwright Reads at Pudding | 4/26/1988 | See Source »

...Then, with the brutal efficiency of a well-trained hit squad, they turned their fire on al-Wazir and riddled his body with a prolonged spray of bullets. Al-Wazir, 52, Yasser Arafat's most trusted lieutenant, who was known worldwide by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad, was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Gunned Down in Tunis | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...Wazir has been associated with two particularly brutal attacks: the 1975 takeover of the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv, which resulted in 18 deaths, and a 1978 coastal raid that left a trail of 45 dead bodies from Haifa to Tel Aviv. He is also believed to have helped direct the uprising in the occupied territories. Israeli authorities pointed an accusing finger at al-Wazir last March, following the hijacking of a bus in southern Israel that claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians. At the time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vowed, "Our hand will bring to justice those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Gunned Down in Tunis | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...there are some exceptions. The Western countries decided not to negotiate with Hitler. For us Arafat is like Hitler. He wants to see every one of us dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shamir: This Is a New Form of Warfare | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | Next