Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy toward Central America, in particular El Salvador. Two days after Bush's ultimatum, Salvadoran extremists won worrisome victories: a rightist coalition in the legislature managed to weaken the three-year-old land-reform program, and leftist guerrillas in the field ravaged a U.S.-trained army battalion (25 dead, 45 wounded) in a ten-hour firefight. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, the left-wing Sandinista government has made much of its recent moderate gestures, as the U.S. endeavors to fashion a diplomatic response...
...rescue teams and fire-fighting crews searched through the thick fog; they were eventually led to the scene of the accident by a survivor. Said Israeli Passenger Osant Berkowich, 32: "I could hear people shouting, 'Let me out, let me out.' It was horrible." The toll: 93 dead, 30 injured...
...standby. Later, when he was safely on the ground, Young confessed: "When the first one went, my knees shook. When the second went, I turned to jelly." Eventually, Mission Control was able to command No. 2 back into action, although its performance was erratic. No. 1 remained dead for the rest of the flight...
...Harlem street corner. The chief witness against Sweeper was a drug addict named Bobby Edmonds. Police and prosecutors succeeded in keeping his identity secret until the trial began. At that point, the judge disclosed Edmonds' name and address to the defense. Within seven hours Edmonds was found dead, with two bullets in the back of his head...
...when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time to children's resentments and fears, but his best selections feed the youthful sense of wonder expressed by Emily Dickinson's argument for reading poetry aloud: "A word is dead/ When it is said,/ Some say./ I say it just/ Begins to live/ That...