Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gutlaughter and gut-fear. One thing's for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
...first year Business School student collapsed Saturday on the Weeks Footbridge and later was pronounced dead at a Boston hospital...
...tale goes as well with Reeboks and condominiums as Agatha Christie's puzzlers did with spats and country homes. In the '80s, not only the dead are ) victims: "Was this what murder did to the innocent?" wonders a bystander. "Took away the people they loved, loaded their minds with terror, left them bereft and unfriended under a smouldering sky." Dalgliesh's assistant, Inspector Kate Miskin, provides a counterpoint to the Tory values exemplified by most of the characters on both sides of the law. Miskin has risen from a council-flat childhood to an imitation of chic affluence. A visitor...
...flights. Indeed, the spotlight on Ilopango's role as a base for supplying the contras, long an open secret in Central America, brought new problems for Duarte as he struggled with the impact of the Oct. 10 earthquake in the capital of San Salvador that left more than 600 dead and thousands homeless. Duarte last week received a promise of $50 million in U.S. disaster relief from visiting U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who strove to downplay the contra problem. Shultz said the shot-down contra supply plane "was not part of the government's operation...
...first we thought of. For 48 years we had a policy of nonviolence. This is a difficult policy if you are being hit and cannot hit back. Every act we committed that was nonviolent produced more violence from the other side. We reached a dead end after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. Only after that did we decide to embrace violence -- to remove a violent system...