Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams played the first half dead-even at 4-4. Harvard's Emily Ozer scored two of the four Crimson goals. Ozer was playing two-meter in place of fellow senior Leean O'Connell, who was out with a pinched nerve...
...great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil will not keep them anymore...
...Mallory, the narrator, is an Englishman working for the World Health Organization in the arid northern province of a former French colony "in the dead heart of the African continent, a land as close to nowhere as the planet could provide." The southward creep of the Sahara and the drying up of nearby Lake Kotto have driven most of the native residents away, leaving the physician with hardly anyone to treat but General Harare and his ragtag band of Marxist guerrillas. But these rebel patients do not trust Mallory, because he has conceived a scheme to drill the dry lake...
...movies that were the delight of families around the world. But one day a great disenchantment fell over the kingdom, for the magic no longer worked. Tinker Bell's pixie dust had lost its twinkle. A teenage boy was even heard to say, "I wouldn't be caught dead going to one of their movies." The whole kingdom fell into such deep gloom that ruthless Corporate Raiders attacked the magic realm, aiming to sell off its treasures and keep Cinderella's Castle as their trophy. But a man named Roy, noble nephew of the late Uncle Walt, sought help from...
...cannot guarantee that the DTP will change his mind; but unless letters are sent, and that means by the thousands, the status of street music in Harvard Square will continue to decline until it is completely dead...