Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and left four people dead and 34 injured. "Far from being a blow against democracy," thundered Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams from a platform flanked by huge posters of the devastated hotel, "it was a blow for democracy." Adams termed the bombing "an inevitable result of the British presence" in Northern Ireland, which he called "unwanted, illegal...
Until the discovery of Ban Chiang, Southeast Asia had been largely dismissed by scholars as a cultural dead end. Rice cultivation was thought to have been introduced to Southeast Asia by way of China or the Near East. Metalworking techniques were said to have come from Mesopotamia or China...
...know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...
...Escoto: "Ted, I invite you to come to my country and see for yourself. The thousands dead, the oil reserves blown up, the destruction of our economic base. The U.S. government has already invaded our country...
...Washington Post editor and Newsweek columnist pointed to stories about alleged Mafia connections of Rep. Geraldine Parraro's (D-NY) dead father-in-law as one example of the media investing insignificant events with undue importance...