Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People were sprawled all over," recalled Susan Mahaffey, 17. "There wasn't much blood, but most of the people were lying very still. Some were unconscious. A couple looked dead." Dozens of shoes, lost in the panicked scramble, were strewn along the block. A baby carriage lay overturned and empty. Blood began to seep along the concrete...
...dead yet, but the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration-reform bill is in critical condition. The overt cause of the trouble is the difference between the House and Senate versions of the bill. Both offer amnesty to millions of aliens now living in the U.S. However, the House bill, which passed by only 216 to 211, offers to legitimize the status of illegal aliens who have lived continuously in the U.S. since Jan. 1, 1982, while the Senate sets the date at Jan. 1, 1980. And unlike the Senate, the House would permit an agricultural-guest-worker program that has been opposed...
...awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...
...most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. The bloody Christs in our village churches ... the custom of eating skull-shaped cakes and candies on the Day of the Dead, are habits inherited from the Indians and the Spaniards and are now an inseparable part of our being...
Cairo: Life in the City of the Dead...