Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monitor the activities of the submarine and an American destroyer that was keeping watch over the stricken craft, while the queasy Soviet sailors waited for a salvage ship that eventually arrived from Cuba. Said a Pentagon spokesman during the uncomfortable hiatus: "She isn't going anywhere. She is dead in the water...
...followed two German shepherds who led them to still another body buried in the ruins. "These dogs have already found seven," explained their trainer. Helicopters whipped up dust as they landed, some bringing in rabbis of the Israeli Defense Forces to help with the painful process of identifying the dead, notifying families and returning the bodies home for burial...
...other children could not be saved. As heavy sleet, then snow began to fall, Kamkas, sat through the night beside the rubble that had been his home. "All day long, we tried to find our families," he later recalled. "And all night long, we stayed with our dead." Throughout his desolate farming village of Muratbagi last week, the toll of dead, mostly women and children who were still indoors after the men left to work in the fields, continued to mount. The earthquake killed more than half of the village's 980 inhabitants, reducing the settlement to a heap...
Muratbagi was just one of 44 villages in mountainous eastern Turkey that suffered serious damage from the quake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. By week's end the total number of dead had reached 1,339, nearly twice as many as in the celebrated San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The shock even succeeded in overshadowing the campaigning for Turkey's first national elections since the military seized power...
...play comes closer to achieving dramatic balance with the arrival of Eric Jacobson as the equally pivotal character Eilert Lovborg--the pawn to contrast with Brack and Hedda's manipulations, the hidden genius whose character weaknesses lock him into the same dead-ended bitterness as the rest...