Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John's gone, found dead, he dies high, he's brown bread...
...bottom, like anything else in this city, the determinant of success or failure, of whether a movement is "hot" or "dead," is its acceptance by the elite. In the world of nightclubs, that group is the "A-Crowd," those "50 or so people who go to all the dinner parties," says Rudolf...
When Diana does manage to get out of the house on her own, she displays the friskiness of a boarding-school student on a weekend of freedom. At a recent charity ball in London, she wore a silver drop-dead, bare-backed, broad- shouldered gown. Instead of leaving at midnight like a proper Cinderella, as is the royal custom, she was still dancing at 2:30. A month later, while Charles was away, her sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale persuaded Diana to go to a country house ball in Leicestershire. The bachelors were too timid to ask her to dance. Exercising...
...last weekend of October, Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, was trying to stage a dramatic rally of his own. Only a few days before, his goal of presiding over a thorough reform of the U.S. income tax code had seemed virtually dead. But Rostenkowski called extraordinary Saturday and Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans in the group a chance to watch the World Series, the lawmakers made enough progress over...
Since word came last summer that Dr. Josef Mengele was dead, a man named Alois Brunner, once top aide to Mass Murderer Adolf Eichmann, has headed the list of living Nazi war criminals. Brunner has long been rumored to be living in Damascus, Syria, and last week the Munich-based magazine Bunte disclosed that its reporters had found him there. At age 73, it said, Brunner is missing most of his fingers and is half blind as a result of two letter bombs sent to him by unknown parties in 1961 and 1980. He boasted to Bunte...