Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours after a toxic gas leak had created the world's worst industrial disaster. "I have seen men killed in battle," Brelis reported after walking through streets littered with the corpses of people and animals. "But seeing ordinary people dying before your eyes, especially mute children falling dead in a transfixed silence, is appalling. I felt as if I were wandering through a landscape of the dead...
Globe Santa kicked off its 29th year the day after Thanksgiving, and in the pas weeks has every day run a story about children who wouldn't be getting Christmas present because their are poor, or alcoholic, or disabled, or dead...
...contributors will help put something--something that wouldn't have been there otherwise--under the tree for kids like 3-year-old Susan whose father dead in September and lost all her toys when her welfare mother's apartment burned up last month, and orphan Mary Jo, whose father deserted her when she was born and whose drug addict mother left four years...
After six days and two dead--including two Americans--Reagan officials were among the most intent observers. This administration had declared a war on terrorism, only to meet with car bombs in Lebanon and hijackers in Iran. Some U.S. officials accused the Iraninan government of abetting, or at least failing to counter forcefully, the terrorists' cause, leaving the United States in a still more helpless situation since strategies to combat terrorism typically presuppose the cooperation of the host government...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...