Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carpeted Assembly chamber and refused to yield it through four days of 24-hour debates. Finally, the Democratic Republicans and a few independent Assemblymen slipped next door to an annex and at 2 a.m. passed the bill 122 to 0. The opposition wailed that "democracy is dead in Korea," but the vote was technically legal...
...settlement in the nomadic grazing lands of the north. Last week Las Anod's bloody reputation was reinforced. As President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, 49, stepped from his car in Las Anod on the last stop of a ten-day tour of the drought-stricken north, he was shot dead by a 22-year-old policeman, who then quietly surrendered...
Russ Gibb, disk jockey for Detroit radio station WKNR, had a startling announcement. Paul McCartney of the Beatles, he said, has been dead for several years, and is being impersonated by a double. Gibb figured it all out from two Beatles album covers. The new Abbey Road cover, he explained, shows Ringo Starr dressed as an undertaker, George Harrison as a gravedigger, and John Lennon as a religious personage. Paul is dressed hi a normal suit and is barefoot-the mark of a corpse laid out for burial in Italy. The license plate on a parked Volkswagen reads "281F," meaning...
...self-abasement. It seems bent on atoning for sins it has not committed and receiving the bogus absolution of ex post facto justice dispensed with casuistry and comfort in the theater. No one can bring the 6,000,000 Jews of Europe back to life; no one can restore dead Indians to their buffalo hunting grounds; no one can dis-invent the atomic bomb...
...college students in a peace march, braving the jeers of hard-hatted steamfitters who tried to stage a counterdemonstration. The peace marchers jammed into a memorial service at Trinity Church, where Investment Banker Andre Meyer, Ogden Corp. Chairman Ralph Ablon and other high executives read the names of war dead from the pulpit...