Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose some of the trouble was the company I kept at Exeter. Although I wouldn't be caught dead near theboathouse, one of my good friends coxed the firstboys' boat for two years, and many of my otherfriends rowed...
...Shiite Moslem militia commander said the two pilots bailed out and landed in an olive grove, one alive and one dead. Abu Jamil Ghaddar of the Amal militia said the survivor was captured in the grove between Siroubieh and Anqoun, suburbs of this city 25 miles south of Beirut...
...bill had been forced off the House floor late last month in an embarrassing procedural defeat that left sponsors pronouncing it dead...
...played by Michael J. Fox was hurled back to a time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier. She is literally reviving the ghosts of memory, as when she picks up a 1960 telephone and hears the voice of her "dead" grandmother. She knows what lies ahead: death and decay for the family she once took for granted, compromise and disillusion for herself and Charlie...
...particular times. Poetry calls to all people at all times. By its existence it demands generosity and expansiveness. "When power narrows the areas of man's concern," said Kennedy, "poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." Last week Lermontov, dead 145 years, mocked all the prisons and praised all the skies...