Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours more, while terrified Moslems in the area shrieked and scattered to safety, the siege went on. The rebels dropped six more bombs, killed two French soldiers, wounded three others. At last Ramel, already wounded, made a dash for the street and was shot dead. Then with a homemade bomb Mourad blew up himself, Ramel's 20-year-old mistress and most of the house...
...site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke cleared, Berlin's disarmament expert was dead. At week's end 8,000 Berliners flocked to pay tribute at the funeral of Sergeant Werner Stephan...
...yapping, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway poked his head out the door of his home near Havana, found a squad of soldiers scouring the bushes for an insurrecto, lent them a flashlight and went back to bed. Next morning Papa discovered his dog Machakos (breed: "Cuban") dead of a head wound, presumably inflicted with a rifle butt, stormed down to the local military post but got no explanation, mournfully listed the pooch "killed in action...
...thought to be a survivor of Leichhardt's venture. Seizing on this episode and the surrounding legends, Author White sends Voss and his companions on a rambling journey into disaster. The novel's finely told climax adds up to a masterly impression: a surrealist landscape of dead trees, the hallucinations of men dying of thirst and hunger, and the trancelike thoughts of nomad aborigines merged into a crude but forceful design like the bark paintings of the aborigines themselves...
...history. For Australia's story, as it is told in the school books to this day, is not one of national revolution or wars of liberation, but a simple narrative of what seekers and explorers found inside the place, in that fatal zero known to Australians as the "Dead Heart" of the continent...