Word: dead
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...Helms-Hunt battle is this year's most ferociously contested Senate race. A year ago a poll rated Hunt 19 points ahead of Helms. Recent polls, however, show the candidates in a virtual dead heat. If Helms triumphs and Senator Charles Percy loses his re-election bid, Helms could succeed the Illinois Republican as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a scenario that distresses liberals and moderates. A victory might even make Helms a presidential prospect in 1988. For Hunt, a victory could result in his being anointed as leader of the progressive South...
...strong law-and-order platform has earned her the sobriquet Attila the Nun. Local Republican strategists have yet another reason to take heart: although Rhode Island was the only New England state to reject Reagan in 1980, a recent poll suggests that it now places the President in a dead heat with Walter Mondale...
...four F-5 jet fighters piloted by rebellious air force officers opened fire on Hassan's Boeing 727, destroying the landing gear as well as an engine. Cool as ever, Hassan reportedly took the controls and persuaded his attackers to cease firing by radioing them, "The tyrant is dead. Enough people have died." He expertly landed the craft and, by having his death proclaimed on the radio, flushed out the leaders of the plot...
Translated phrase by phrase by interpreters supplied by the host churches, Graham's sermons were generally familiar, but the words had special power in the context of militant state atheism: "Jesus Christ is not dead on the Cross. He is a living Christ. He can come to your person. He can come to your family. He can come to your great country." This time there was no propaganda harvest for Radio Moscow...
Suppose, just for laughs, that the wisdom of Solomon is a myth. Says David: "I'll let you in on a secret about my son Solomon: he was dead serious when he proposed cutting the baby in half, that putz. I swear to God. The dumb son of a bitch was trying to be fair, not shrewd." Dialogues between exasperated father and nincompoop son appear to be modeled on the old radio sketches of Jack Benny and Dennis Day. David: "Do you understand what I'm saying to you about Joab? Do not let his hoar head...