Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mather House sophomore was found dead in his common room Saturday morning, College officials said yesterday...
...behavior as an anchorman too has sometimes seemed inexplicable. In an interview during last summer's Iran-contra hearings, he peppered former CIA Chief William Colby with questions about the rumor -- taken seriously by almost no one else -- that the late CIA director William Casey was not really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...
Perhaps it was just coincidence that the B-grade thriller Return of the Living Dead was playing at the only movie house in Ottawa, Kans., when Gary Hart came home again last week. But it was fitting. Six weeks after Hart burst back into the Democratic race, the surge of excitement has subsided. Even in Ottawa, where he was born and raised, the ardor has cooled. Only a few hours before his nephew was to appear before the local chamber of commerce, not even Uncle Ralph Hartpence could resist telling a Gary-and-Donna joke...
...Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average $500-a-performance fee at theaters throughout Austria. "I'm just beginning in Austria, but if I have talent, I can see it appreciated now, not after I'm dead...
...agents surrounded the compound shortly after Swapp allegedly dynamited the nearby Mormon church on Jan. 16. The heavily armed clan of messianic polygamists was holed up with ample food and water, goading the authorities to deliver them to martyrdom and thereby bring about the resurrection of their dead patriarch, Vickie's husband John Singer...