Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Informer Agosto dead, speculation on who will testify for the Government in the new case centers on two men not indicted. They are Glick, who lives as a retired multimillionaire on his huge and heavily guarded estate near La Jolla, Calif., and Frank ("Lefty") Rosenthal, who had been paid $250,000 annually by Glick to oversee his casinos, even though Rosenthal's only known previous legitimate business experience was running a Chicago hot-dog stand. A map of Click's estate had been sought by Triggerman DeLuna, according to testimony in the Tropicana case. A bomb exploded...
...bullet hit him in the chest. Soifert died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Half an hour earlier, another Marine had been injured by sniper fire as he drove through the same area. The new casualties brought the U.S. toll in Lebanon in the past two months to five dead, some 43 wounded...
...meter race, and dropped into a group with the fifth- and sixth-place rowers. "It seemed like two three-boat races. But with 450 meters left, I had caught up with the Russian. I said, 'Holy shit.' I figured if he had drifted back that far, he was dead meat...
...nearly every day. Probably the most heart-stopping was the 5,000-meter run: Ralph Hill, a hitherto unknown American, raced after the world-record holder, Finland's Lauri Lehtinen. Hill tried to pass him on the outside, then the inside, and was finally beaten in a virtual dead heat. The largely American crowd was angry at first, believing that the Finn had unfairly tried to stop Hill, but a word from the announcer ("Remember please, these people are our guests") turned boos into applause. The sunny mood returned and remained. Nature cooperated, and for those two weeks...
...wrote after Lord of the Flies relentlessly do so, in frequently venturesome ways. Neanderthals are exterminated by a rapacious new breed of creatures called Homo sapiens (The Inheritors); a shipwrecked survivor clings to a rock in the Atlantic Ocean, wondering (along with the reader) whether he is alive or dead and recalling his wickedness on dry land (Pincher Martin); a towering religious structure is erected on a foundation of slime (The Spire...