Word: dead
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Chastened by a 1980 prison riot that left 33 convicts dead, New Mexico built a new maximum-security facility near Santa Fe with a surveillance system that was supposedly state of the art. But a snafu in the electric eyes plus a tight budget that cut out the nighttime roof guard allowed the Independence Day escape of two killers and five other felons...
...Prince of the City, the investigative process is shown to be a brutal affair. In the Untouchables it is celebrated. As the Ness gang attempts to draw a confession from one of Capone's men, they shoot a dead body in the view of the captured assailant. The man is terrorized into confessing. The audience invariably cheers, for the good guys have won. Never mind if such tactics raise serious questions about the rights of the arrested...
Oral Roberts, fresh from a run of other controversies, claims to have raised the dead. -- The Pope and Billy Graham agree to meet...
After graduation in 1961, North attended the State University College at Brockport, majoring in English but dreaming about a military career. He enrolled in a campus Marine officers' training course and spent a summer at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. When he returned, he was dead set on being a leatherneck, and a friend's father helped him to gain admission to Annapolis...
Angry Haitians took to the streets, battling the army in violent outbursts that left at least 20 people dead and dozens of others wounded. Namphy, meanwhile, has spent recent weeks drumming up support in the countryside. He told one group of villagers that "the Eternal" had sent him. For Haitians who recalled the claim by Duvalier's father "Papa Doc" that he ruled by divine right, Namphy's pronouncement sounded disturbingly familiar...