Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weathermen had abandoned any appreciation of the absurdity of the way things were. They were ready to sacrifice their whole identities (behind such a laughable shield as the refrains the reporters picked up- "Piggy Wiggy, you better go now, Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang! Dead Pig!") their lives perhaps, for an idea. To newsmen, the very idea of Revolution, wiping away all the evils. is Romantic...
...Kenyatta's convoy began to move away after the speech, spectators stoned the lead car. Panicky police fired point-blank into the crowd, leaving at least nine dead and 70 wounded. Two days later, Kenya police arrested Odinga, and most of the other KPU leadership, including all eight of the party's MPs. A day later, KPU was banned for allegedly seeking "to overthrow the lawful and constitutional government of the Republic of Kenya." It seemed a clear reference to Communist intrigues. Though apparently no Communist, Odinga is a leftist who has accepted funds from Soviet and Chinese...
...along his track, searching for wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now devotes his life to the cause of conservation, had simply set his single-engine plane down in a dry rice paddy to avoid a tropical squall. Then his battery went dead, cutting out the engine starter; finally he hitched a ride with a passing motorist to get his battery recharged, and after four hours he took off again on his inspection tour of wildlife and primitive tribes in the area. Said Lindy, when he finally arrived at his destination...
...began in Hollywood in the 1930s. Hepburn is always one of the first on stage, works the hardest and the longest without a break, and is among the last to leave. "She's Man Mountain Dean," says Jerry Adler, production stage manager. "She leaves us younger folks for dead at the end of the day." When she's not in a scene, she perches on a staircase munching things-packets of meat and cheese and fruit she has brought from home-listening and watching the onstage action over and over...
Perspire freely, ladeezandgentlemun, at death-defying acts of the imagination: a man is caught copulating with his dead wife and cries out at the loss of a book marker. Murder in a train station is erased when the stationmaster sets back the clock. An office worker outwits a homicidal elevator...