Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard College, even at the safe distance of the Radcliffe Yard, and would have nothing to do with the academic arrangements by which their colleagues taught the Radcliffe students. Roger Merriman, for example, thr first master of Eliot House and professor of history, would not have been caught dead teaching a Radcliffe class...
...gender. For an old blue-collar Polack [on his mother's side] like me, that's a hell of an admission." Workers in Chicago bars accepted Jane Byrne as mayor without any sense of trauma or endangered masculinity. Studs Terkel, anthropologist of the working class, explains: "The issue is dead. The guys in the bar have been conditioned by idols like Barbara Stanwyck. Now they're ready for a Gerri Ferraro or a Pat Schroeder...
...thus far, claiming that it has destroyed 27 vessels since Feb. 27. As the news of new attacks reached Baghdad last week, a high Iraqi official declared, "Let the Iranians lose their tempers and attack other shipping in the gulf. This will only push the Iranians into a dead end." -By William E. Smith. Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Jidda and Barrett Seaman/ Washington
...under savage attack last week in Izvestia. The government daily accused Bonner of pushing her husband into anti-Soviet activities. The commentary described her as a "shallow, resentful and greedy person" whose primary goal was to flee to the West "even if it meant over her husband's dead body." Izvestia also repeated allegations that the U.S. embassy in Moscow had involved Sakharov's wife in a "provocative operation...
...violence began in Bhiwandi (pop. 300,000, two-thirds Muslim), a textile town 32 miles northeast of Bombay with a history of Hindu-Muslim enmity: bitter fighting between Hindu and Muslim extremists in 1970 left 150 people dead. Tensions began to rise again in Bhiwandi and other Maharashtra towns earlier this year. One specific incident came in late April when Bal Thackeray, leader of a militant, right-wing Hindu organization called Shiv Sena, gave a speech in which he reportedly maligned the Islamic faith. Muslims retaliated by garlanding a portrait of Thackeray with dirty sandals, an insult to Hindus. Next...