Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could...
...twisters left behind scenes that might have been conceived by a macabre surrealist. In some farming areas the dead bodies of cows were found hanging from trees, and in McColl, S.C., an aluminum fishing boat was wrapped around a tree trunk like foil paper. Near by, all that remained of what had been a section of old frame houses was a field of splintered wood, with undamaged household articles sticking out incongruously. Two rescue workers diverted themselves from the grim task of searching through the debris for bodies by staging an impromptu open-air musicale. One weary young...
...Mondale after polls of New York voters found that fewer than one in five favored military aid to Central America. A Hart ad showed a slowly burning fuse and asked, "Remember Viet Nam?"; his speeches warned that either "Reagan's or Mondale's" policies would lead to dead G.I.s...
About a month ago, a Crimson writer cynically proclaimed that Harvard's refusal to divest from companies which operate in South Africa was effectively a dead issue. Pointing to the cold reaction of Cabot House students at a recent student-faculty dinner and to the obstinacy of Bok and the Harvard Corporation, Peter J. Howe all but said that students should abandon the issue...
...ASCR). With near unanimity the 25 speakers at the meeting called on the ASCR to recommend the Harvard Corporation to divest. This spring the Endowment for Divestiture campaign will raise funds from the senior class to protest the university's refusal to divest. In fact, the issue is not dead and will not die as long as apartheid remains the policy of the regime in South Africa and as long as Harvard, through its investments, continues, to bolster that regime. Robert A. Watts...