Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand-me-down overalls. "My brothers are dead," he said quietly. "We don't know where daddy is." Haggard Dr. Cevil Clark, Cameron's only physician, trudged doggedly along muddy streets, giving shots, treating and comforting the injured-while two of his own children lay dead as Audrey's victims...
...hour, carrying winds up to 80 miles an hour. It drenched and stirred up twisters through the Ohio River Valley, crashed lustily through western Pennsylvania and New York and jaded out in Canada. But in Cameron the bodies were still being stacked in the ice house, with about 350 dead in the area and uncounted others floating out to sea in Audrey's sullen...
...Dead Aim. Marty's pal was quiet, tousle-haired Curtis Raymond Edwards, 14, son of a Germantown widow living on social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted...
...feuding students from Rikkyo and Nippon Universities started a riot in a beer hall. Result: one student dead. ¶ In June, three students from Komazawa, Japan's foremost Buddhist university, were arrested for assault and attempted rape after breaking into a public bathhouse and attacking two bathhouse maids...