Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached for an interview by Barbara Howar of TV's Entertainment Tonight, Sinatra snarled: "You read the Post this afternoon? You're all dead, every one of you. You're all dead...
...after France had dispatched 1,000 extra gendarmes and paratroopers to New Caledonia. The contingent had been sent to reinforce the territory's 2,280-man French security force after confrontations two weeks ago between native Melanesians, known as Kanaks, and predominantly French settlers, called caldoches, left three people dead, prompting Special Envoy Pisani to declare a state of emergency...
...years later, that haunted little reverie from a tune called Lodi had turned into grim reality. He had lost out on--been done out of, he would say--millions of dollars in a bitter wrangle with his money managers. He got jammed up legally, and creatively he had gone dead...
...architect's widow perceived Stalin's daughter as a mystical representative, possibly even the reincarnation, of her own daughter, who had died in an auto accident in 1946. Mrs. Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead. Her daughter, by an earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley...
...California and New Jersey, only to rebuff the welcome she found. After deciding to break up a friendship with a distinguished intellectual, she wrote to him, "You are deaf, stupid. You are doomed. You are a failure. I pity you. I despise you." In other letters she wished people dead. Of an elderly lady who, Svetlana thought, had crossed her, she wrote, "I hope she will not be with us too long." To British Author Malcolm Muggeridge, a deeply religious man who had been her host during a brief visit to Britain, she wrote, "You are one of these obsessed...