Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes off to fly a B-24 in World War II and is reported missing over Burma. Homer and Candy have come to love each other, as well as Wally. The result of their mutual grief and consolation is predictable. But what will they do if Wally is not dead...
When Chadbourne's memoirs were acquired by New York University, the New York firm of Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff successfully requested that the Smith chapter be dropped from publication. A spokesman told the New York Times that the firm merely wanted to avoid libeling anyone, although dead people cannot be libeled. Still, the reputations of the dead, as of the living, can be tainted by unsavory lore...
MARRIED. Bruce Springsteen, 35, rock superstar; and Julianne Phillips, 25, model and actress; both for the first time; in a dead-of-night hastily moved- up ceremony in a candlelit church, after a hectic weekend with reporters and fans besieging the Phillips home; in Lake Oswego...
...town right outside of Pittsburgh, because the steel mills are there and there was a lot of work. They lived in sort of an Italian ghetto-type neighborhood, and my grandfather got a job in a steel mill. My grandmother and grandfather spoke no English at all. They are dead now, but when I was a little girl I would see them all the time. They weren't very educated, and I think in a way they represented an old life-style that my father really didn't want to have anything to do with. It's not that...
...years back was also right. Jerry Ford in 1975 refused to use federal credit to help lift New York out of its fiscal mess until the city took its own action. The New York Daily News headline for that rebuff is famous: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. New York did not drop dead. Instead it got mad, went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other city in the country." Few New Yorkers seemed to remember that...