Word: dead
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Shouts and powder flew in every direction, in every face. My dead-eye Minnesota aim, cultivated through many years of schoolyard skirmishes, clobbered numerous California-bred friends. The practiced Yankee Yardlings had met up with the sun-belt greenhorns in a frenzied free-for-all that only Mother Nature could have provoked...
...cagers, Phillips and Junior guard Keith Webster, are currently in a dead heat in the race for scoring leadership of the Crimson. Phillips held a 169-168 lead in points going into the Duke game, but Webster tied him with an 11-10 edge in that game...
...society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income," said Dr. King. There is a lot of killing going on in the job market. Sixteen percent of Blacks don't have jobs. All dead. We are opposed to the use of quotas says Reagan. Words of Dr. King says Reagan. Half of Black families live in poverty. It is murder, says Dr. King. Capital punishment. Murder by supply-side. Reagan lengthening the lines of the living dead, the unemployed, with Black zombies. In our society it is murder...
Francis Cornish is another one of those great Davies characters, a child of the old world lost in the new. Cornish is dead before the book begins and his story is told by the Daimon Maimas and the Recording Angel, two medieval creatures who have overseen his life. Under their influence, Cornish has lead a decidedly bizarre existence. His parents essentially abandon him at the beginning of this century to be raised in a miniscule Canadian town by his Catholic great aunt who bootlegs Catholicism to him against the wishes of his resolutely Anglican father...
...children and appoint the eldest head of his house. The youngest, the one who loves him most selflessly, resists the idea and is angrily banished from the realm. By the time the ensuing tragedy has played out, the patriarch is a madman wandering the wilderness, all three children are dead, and their world, racked by civil war, is a smoldering ruin...